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DEFINITION: n. A condition where you get so distracted by the fact that you can't find something, that you forget what you were looking for. v. To forget what you are looking for while you are looking for it.
Verboticisms
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Absentfindedness
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: AB sent find ed NESS
Sentence: Able tore around the apartment, digging through gobs of stuff to find many things he forgot he had. Unfortunately, his absentfindedness prevented him from actually remembering what he was looking for. Perhaps Able found it after all that finding!
Etymology: I forgot... (Uh, a twist together of absentmindedness and find).
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COMMENTS:
Good word...amazing how many people are afflicted with this disease...not me, at least I don't remember having it! - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 20:19:00
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Alzhunter
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: allz-hun-ter
Sentence: Carl was certain that he had early onset of Alzhunter's Disease when he began to forget what it was that he was looking for in the first place; however, while he was hunting it, he found what he was looking for yesterday -- except he couldn't remember why he was looking for it.
Etymology: Alzheimer's Disease: dimentia often beginning with short-term memory loss + hunter: one who searches or seeks for something
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COMMENTS:
I often find things by looking for something else. - artr, 2009-10-01: 11:06:00
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Wanderlost
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: won-der-lost
Sentence: Kev almost always has trouble keeping track of his things. Whatever he has in his hands when he gets home gets dropped somewhere. He then gets to play hide and seek finding them again. Sometimes he spends so much time hunting that he forgets what ha was looking for. He gets completely wanderlost.
Etymology: wander (to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray) + lost (having gone astray or missed the way) play on wanderlust (a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about)
Forgetmeenotagain
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: for/get/mee/not/a/gen
Sentence: After my fifth trip to the kitchen and experiencing a forgemeenotagain I decided to start writing all my tasks down as soon as I thought of them - then I forgot.
Etymology: forget me not + again
Fourofourgot
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: for-oh-four-got
Sentence: Because she suffered from mysplasia, Sue fourofourgot that she was looking for her keys and walked out to her car, content in the fact that she had found the remote.
Etymology: 404 - error message "Not Found"; forgot (literally, to not find, then forget)
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COMMENTS:
I can imagine people of the future using this word... - Discoveria, 2007-03-15: 10:11:00
Speaking of people, I wonder why so many players are 404'd lately. Hope they weren't verbducted to another room. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-15: 11:46:00
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Stemel
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: ste-ml
Sentence: After every 10 minutes , Jamil comes and asks what questions are expected in tomorrow's paper , exams has turned him into a stemel.
Etymology: Stemel is the acronym for Short term memory loss.
Absentfinded
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ab - sent - fine - ded
Sentence: Felicity was absentfinded. Everytime she went to look for something, she forgot what she was supposed to be looking for.
Etymology: absent-minded, find
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COMMENTS:
Our words today are very similar -this proves great minds think alike! Good word! - splendiction, 2009-10-01: 19:10:00
great word - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 20:22:00
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Whichhunt
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: which-hunt
Sentence: as he aimlessly entered the kitchen again, he realised he needed to give up this whichhunt.
Etymology: which, hunt, witch hunt
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COMMENTS:
excellost! - galwaywegian, 2007-03-15: 06:03:00
This could be rendered as a verb, nice. - mplsbohemian, 2007-03-15: 19:27:00
this works also because, as in a witchhunt, one is actually unlikely to find something when they forget to look for it or won't notice it when they see it - ekath, 2007-03-22: 22:37:00
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Helterseeker
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: hell-tor-sEk-or
Sentence: Jill's search for her keys turned into a helterseeker. She forgot that she is seeking her keys when she stumbled onto a shoe she lost 2 months ago.
Etymology: helter skelter/seek
Disfolocate
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: dis-foh-loh-keht
Sentence: While hunting for his keys, Bob disfolocated and grabbed his jacket instead.
Etymology: dis=bad, fo=first syllable of "forget" and "focus" (pronounced as in "focus"), locate
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066.
Thank you mana1066! ~ James
I do believe in the UK the DJ on Radio 2 called Terry Wogan calls this a senior moment but thats two words.
Funny thing is that it's been happening to me since I was a kid... Do think it's going to get worse as I get older?
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. Thank you mana1066. ~ James