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'But I only see her once a year. And I do remember her hair. And her lips...'

DEFINITION: To share greetings, hugs, and kisses with old friends and familiar faces, while you desperately try to remember their names.

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Affectiamnesia

Created by: kmccardle

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Greefting

Created by: Jessj

Pronunciation: Grief-ting

Sentence: I was greefting all night at that party.

Etymology: Drifting from person to person with knowledge of identity + greeting

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Huggingmsnicerack

Created by: Hermes

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Amnamesia

Chunk01

Created by: Chunk01

Pronunciation: Am-name-sia

Sentence: Despite spending a fun filled 14 days together in Cancun, now he saw her again in his home town he suffered a serious case of amnamesia

Etymology: name+amnesia = amnamesia

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Anonygrope

Created by: kittreb

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Amnomenclate

msnyder

Created by: msnyder

Pronunciation: am - no - men - clate

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Derinstate

Created by: Roshajosh

Pronunciation: Deh/rin/state

Sentence: He derinstated furiously, keeping a straight face.

Etymology: Desperate + Reinstate

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Hugstall

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: hug-stall

Sentence: Julie could not remember her friend's name so she hugstalled for time.

Etymology: hug + stall

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Prevaricuddling

Created by: wysware

Pronunciation: pre-vari-cud-ling

Sentence: As soon as he saw me he started to hug me in his prevaricuddling way

Etymology: prevaricate (avoid stating the truth) cuddling (embracing)

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Forgautonym

Created by: johnnyrockett

Pronunciation: For-got-o-nim

Sentence: As I walked in to my high school reunion, I realized that I would experience forgautonym many times this night.

Etymology: Forg - Forgot Autonym - a person's own name

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Comments:

Jabberwocky - 2006-12-11: 12:34:00
Babel - I love hospiwhothehellity

babel - 2006-12-11: 13:45:00
familanesia is a great one stevenson

wordmeister - 2006-12-11: 14:01:00
Personally, I find embarassing when I get familanesia or hospiwhothehellity... Why do you guys like it?

Jabberwocky - 2006-12-11: 15:31:00
I agree - both are great words but Babel - I think you could expand it to hospiwhothellareyouity

babel - 2006-12-11: 15:33:00
hospiwhothehellareyoulookingatmelikeimsupposedtoknowyouity

babel - 2006-12-11: 15:34:00
oh well, i guess i found the max single word length haha

wordmeister - 2006-12-11: 15:51:00
Yes, I can only guess how your word ends...

CaptPoco - 2006-12-18: 10:19:00
Memorafeeblia is so fun to say!