DEFINITION: n. The moment of loss, hesitation and confusion, which occurs when you enter a room and immediately forget why. v. intr. To forget why you entered a room.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Damnesia: /damnÄ“zhÉ™/ Charlie would often have bouts of damnesia where he would get up from what he was doing to get something and then forget what he meant to get. This occurrence would inevitably elicit his favorite expletive, “Damn!”. Most of the time returning to the starting point would refresh the thought but not always. Those were the moments that worried him the most. Etymology: Damn (exclamation expressing anger, surprise, or frustration) + amnesia (a partial or total loss of memory) Created by: artr.
Comments on Damnesia:
wayoffcenter, 2009-01-13: 06:08:00
I started to write something clever… Oh, well!metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:51:00
Damned clever!silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:06:00
Damn good!Nosila, 2009-01-13: 19:48:00
Damnesia is that what happens to beavers and muskrats when they forget where they live???
Whereamibouts: /ware-am-I-bouts/ I enter a room – I look around – I am faced with the eternal question – whereamIbouts?
Etymology: whereabouts + where am I + bouts (of forgetfulness)
Created by: Jabberwocky.
Comments on Whereamibouts:
silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:21:00
luv the etymology and word … cries out like the lost child in all of us when this happens!
Dismembory: /diss-MEM-burr-eee/ Queen Jane tried to remind herself not to forget to remember something important as she entered the throne room. Just behind her forehead, urgent thoughts rattled around like mexican jumping beans about to hatch.The words “oral hygiene” were on the tip of her tongue, but that wasn’t it. It might have something to do with the supersubmicroscopic spider crawling up the tiles, but she just couldn’t put her finger on it. Perhaps her medication was causing this DISMEMBORY. Her thoughts drifted through her mind like dust motes in the fluid of her sight. WHAT exactly was she supposed to remember? The 39 Steps that could render an aircraft engine completely silent? Queen Jane couldn’t even recall where she had mislaid that potato chip. The odd thing was, she could recall the numbers to her combination lock in high school, but not what she did in the kitchen five minutes ago…Perhaps if she re-traced her steps, it would come rushing back to her like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist. What was it? The McGuffen? Who knows? Etymology: DISMEMBer+memORY=DISMEMBORY…..
DISMEMBER:to break up or tear into pieces, especially brain cells,to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of one’s profound thoughts; Middle English dismembren, from Anglo-French desmembrer, from des- dis- + membre member…..MEMORY:a particular act of recall or recollection, the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and sometimes forgotten, especially through associative mechanisms, the store of things learned and retained from an organism’s activity or experience as evidenced by modification of structure or behavior or by recall and recognition; Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French memoire, memorie, from Latin memoria, from memor mindful; akin to Old English gemimor well-known, Greek mermÄ“ra care, Sanskrit smarati “she remembers”. Created by: metrohumanx.
Comments on Dismembory:
metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:42:00
How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:48:00
Uhhh…I was going to write something clever here, but I forgot what it was.mweinmann, 2009-01-13: 11:24:00
cleverness is evading me also but this word is clever enough!!silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:04:00
Immediately upon saying this word, couldn’t help but think ‘dismembered’ memory! Captures the fright in losing the mind!Jabberwocky, 2009-01-13: 12:07:00
in answer to your question – very farNosila, 2009-01-13: 19:46:00
Memories, all alone in the moonlight is nostalgic, but it sounds like a comedy when you sing Dismembories, all alone on a long flight from Winnipeg to Montreal…
Forgentrance: /for – gent – trance/ As soon as I walked into the kitchen, I began to forgentrance the purpose of it all. The coffee was made, the dog was fed, the dishes were washed….but why oh why was I here? Etymology: I saw many words in this one….Forget (be unable to remember) + Forge (To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward, to forge ahead) + Entrance (The action of entering, or going in; The place of entering, as a gate or doorway) + Trance (a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing) Created by: mweinmann.
Comments on Forgentrance:
Mustang, 2009-01-14: 00:00:00
Been there, done that…..but dont remember when.
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