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DEFINITION: n. The inability to find, organize, or keep track of, simple physical objects. Often occurs when an individual has developed a search-engine dependency. v. To search for something that should be easy to find.

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Ramnesia

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: RAM-knee-zha

Sentence: Jim can track down the latest Lindsay Lohan photos in 12 seconds flat online, but he developed ramnesia when it was time to pay his credit card bills.

Etymology: RAM (random access memory) + amnesia

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Keydependent

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: key de pen dent

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Etymology: Over dependence upon use of key words to search for what one needs to find

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Googleholic

Created by: fonka99

Pronunciation: Google-ho-lic

Sentence: Tristram's Googleholism renderered him unable to do anything complicated when his wifi went down.

Etymology: From Google and the suffix "holism" as in someone with an unhealthy dependancy on a substance.

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Googlitis

Created by: hamburgerman

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Googlewithdrawal

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: goo-gle-with-draw-al

Sentence: Bill suffered googlewithdrawal and was unable to organize or find anything without the familiar search engine.

Etymology: google + withdrawal

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Librarianemesis

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: lie-brair-ea-NEM-a-sis

Sentence: Since the advent of the world wide web, Alice, the librarian, had given up cataloging the contents of her house. She was afflicted with a malaise known as librarianemesis.

Etymology: librarian (traditional stereotype includes being inordinately organised) + nemesis ("the bane of my life")

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