DEFINITION: n. A condition where you get so distracted by the fact that you can’t find something, that you forget what you were looking for. v. To forget what you are looking for while you are looking for it.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Diversiamnesia: /dy ver jha am neez eeya/ My son, Whatshisname, cannot remember a thing. He suffers from diversiamnesia.
I don’t know where he gets it from, but he goes into a room and forgets why he went there. Ideas land on his brain but flitter away like little butterflies if he has any distraction at all. My nagging makes it worse according to him, but you cannot trust him to run a simple errand or remember important things. I think he’s hitting old age early and his condition is inherited from his father, Whateverhisnamewas. Where was I…??? Etymology: Diversion (a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); a distraction) & Amnesia (partial or total loss of memory) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Diversiamnesia:
splendiction, 2009-10-01: 19:15:00
“hitting old age early” – chuckle!
Absentfindedness: /AB sent find ed NESS/ Able tore around the apartment, digging through gobs of stuff to find many things he forgot he had. Unfortunately, his absentfindedness prevented him from actually remembering what he was looking for. Perhaps Able found it after all that finding! Etymology: I forgot… (Uh, a twist together of absentmindedness and find). Created by: splendiction.
Comments on Absentfindedness:
Nosila, 2009-10-01: 20:19:00
Good word…amazing how many people are afflicted with this disease…not me, at least I don’t remember having it!
Roomnesia: /roÅmnÄ“zhÉ™/ Tom has more nesias than you can shake a stick at. There*s roomnesia, where he is working and realizes he needs something to complete his task only to forget what he was going to find when he leaves the room. There is roamnesia, where he forgets what he was working on as soon as he starts to wander in search of something he now can’t remember. He also shows signs of homenesia, where he forgets where he is going as soon as he leaves the house and Romenesia where he can*t remember his vacation to Italy. Tom figures the final stage will be tombnesia when he can forget everything and get some long-lasting rest. Etymology: room (a part or division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling) + amnesia (a partial or total loss of memory) Created by: artr.
Comments on Roomnesia:
mrskellyscl, 2009-10-01: 06:40:00
I have worknesia, where I get so distracted thinking up a word for Verbotomy that I forget to get ready for work.
Alzhunter: /allz-hun-ter/ Carl was certain that he had early onset of Alzhunter’s Disease when he began to forget what it was that he was looking for in the first place; however, while he was hunting it, he found what he was looking for yesterday — except he couldn’t remember why he was looking for it. Etymology: Alzheimer’s Disease: dimentia often beginning with short-term memory loss + hunter: one who searches or seeks for something Created by: mrskellyscl.
Comments on Alzhunter:
artr, 2009-10-01: 11:06:00
I often find things by looking for something else.
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