forgetting a word I know well,
like coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, try as I might I just could
not remember the word when I needed it, the photograph is from one of our days in Venice in March 2018, back to not remembering words, there is a name for it, the
term is "lethologica." The word is made from two Greek terms that
mean forget and word, here is the history of
lethologica and what scientists think may cause it, another term is
"lethonomia," which applies specifically to someone's name that you
can't recall, and then I found out there is another term, "loganamnosis,"
that I strangely found in another
article from a different source, loganamnosis
is a term for when you experience lethologica or lethonomia, and then become so
obsessed with remembering the word or name that you can no longer enjoy what you
were doing when it happened, I suppose forgetting words must be more common
than I thought, if there is a name for it!
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