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DEFINITION: n. A lost thought; v. To become distracted and lose track of what you were thinking.

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Amnesiache

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: am nee zhe ayk

Sentence: When stressed, Maggie became distracted and found herself with an amnesiache. When that old train of thought gets derailed, it's a pain in the caboose.

Etymology: Amnesia (partial or total loss of memory) & Ache (have a desire for something or someone who is not present)

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Damnesia

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dam nee sha

Sentence: You know the feeling...you go into a room, but forget why you went. You see someone familiar but cannot recall their name. You put your keys down, but cannot find them as you race around getting ready to go to work. Yes, it's that damnesia. You used to have a photographic memory...but now you keep forgetting to buy film for it. Your memory is now like a pen that runs out of ink. You have crossed into a new dementia, The Whywrite Zone.

Etymology: Damn (expletives used informally as intensifiers) & Amnesia (total or partial loss of memory)

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Divershunt

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: div err shunnt

Sentence: he always had something cute and witty to say to her, but when he walked into her office, her scent and her smile caused a major divershunt, leaving him simpering while withdrawing to the safety of the men's room.

Etymology: diversion, shunt

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Disconthinkcue

Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation: dis kon THIN kyu

Sentence: Partway through my presentation, I completely disconthinkued, causing me to stop mid-sentence. (One might also experience a "disconthinkcuance")

Etymology: discontinue + think.

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Psyskip

Created by: katytee

Pronunciation:

Sentence: "Sorry, had a bit of a baffling little psyskip there...what was I saying again?"

Etymology: psych (i.e stuff to do with the mind) + skip (like what a CD might do)

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Mislaidea

Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: mis-ley-DEE-uh

Sentence: No one could recall the name of Gabriel's play; Randall chalked it up as a meager mislaidea, but Julia was determined to overcome the rememberference.

Etymology: mislaid + idea

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Attentionesia

Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: ah ten shun e see ya

Sentence: During her speech a spell of attentionesia swept the next thought from her mind

Etymology: attention + amnesia

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Craniaflatuence

Created by: angelheart

Pronunciation: Crania-FLAT-u-ence

Sentence: "I'm really suffering from a bad case of craniaflatuence"

Etymology: Crania-pertaining to the head or brain Flatuence-having excess gas in the system

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Thautata

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: thaw - tuh - TAH [just say the last two syllables in a staccato accent] phonemic symbols: /θɔːt - tʌ - tɑː'/

Sentence: Thalia thautatad and her thought then turn to a thorough thautata. Thin thoughts turn out to be thautatas when thoughtless Thalia thinks thin thoughts-- a thoughtless thinking method we know now as thautata.

Etymology: "thought" + tata [goodbye in a more smexi manner]

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