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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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Indexneglection
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: in-deks-neg-lec-sjån
Sentence: Austins indexneglection often caused him to forget birthdays and the name of his girlfriends.
Etymology: index - a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics. neglection - to pay no attention to.
Hyporderia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"hI-pOr-'dir-E-&/
Sentence: Hypoderia is a serious condition affecting millions of procrastinators and idealists worldwide, but it often overshadows the equally troubling condition of hyperoderia, affecting overworked file clerks and often accompanying OCD.
Etymology: From hypo- + order
Googlelife
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: goo-gal-lie-feh
Sentence: I wish i had googlelife
Etymology: Google+life (i.e. Google maps)
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.
Notinsite
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: not in syte
Sentence: His name was a trick of cruel fate...Seymour Sox. He always found one sock notinsite and in frustration he opened a website called: notinsite.com and used it as a platform to talk with other search-challenged individuals. After a while he made a ton of money on his notinsite site and could afford to buy new socks everyday and never have to worry about them getting divorced in his dryer ever again. Seymour Sox could now see more socks than he ever had in his life before!
Etymology: Not In Sight (invisible, unseen,inability to see) & Site (a computer connected to the Internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web)
Goonesia
Created by: kumza
Pronunciation: goo nee jee ah
Sentence: Hector needed his epee pen after the wasp sting, but alas, his goonesia prevented him from finding it. He died.
Etymology: google amnesia
Dopesy
Created by: Chapin
Pronunciation: Dope-see, dope-uh-see (alt.)
Sentence: Either invisible gnomes are deliberately stealing and hiding my keys, or I've got terminal dopesy.
Etymology: Root: "dope," an idiot or stupid person. Also a play on "dropsy," an abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in bodily tissues or cavities.
Discomboobulated
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: dis-com-boob-you-lated
Sentence: I get discomboobulated when I can't find my keys.
Etymology:
Unorgooglanized
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: uhn-owr-goo-gul-an-ized
Sentence: I have become very unorgooglanized ever since they cruelly decided not to make google's powers extend beyond the internet.
Etymology: unorganized + google
