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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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Anonymingle

Created by: Ahoytheship

Pronunciation: a-non-ni-mingle

Sentence: He anonymigled around the party, successfully rekindling relationships with all the complete strangers in the room.

Etymology: Anonymous+mingle

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Anonymifection

Created by: boywondernyc

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Pretenderness

Created by: polarpanda

Pronunciation: pre-ten-der-ness (not PREE-ten-der-ness)

Sentence: Hey, honey, tell me your cousin Patrice's husband's name again-- he's headed over here, and I don't want all that awkward pretenderness when he leans in for a hug.

Etymology: pretend + tenderness

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Stallfection

Created by: neojester12

Pronunciation: Stal-fec-shun

Sentence: The thanksgiving dinner was abound with stallfection.

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Namelessloveness

Created by: truefedwa

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Namenesia

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: nam-nee-see-ya

Sentence: When namenesia struck, Bertie could hardly remember his own name, never mind anyone else's

Etymology: Name + amnesia

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Alnaimher

Created by: Flixst

Pronunciation: I'll name her

Sentence: As he was drunk, he only succeed to alnaihmer them

Etymology: Alzeihmer and "I'll name her"

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Graspulation

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation:

Sentence: At the family reunion, Alice was in mid graspulation when she finally remembered Uncle Ed's name.

Etymology: From Grast, to grasp, and emulation, to emulate

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Amnomenclate

msnyder

Created by: msnyder

Pronunciation: am - no - men - clate

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Fakinize

Created by: greeneye

Pronunciation: fake-in-ize

Sentence: Tom fakinized the oddly familiar woman, his smile barely masking his internal panic as he tried to remember his 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!