namenesia
namenesia noun: an inability to recall someone's name.
Noun
namenesia (uncountable)
- An inability to recall someone's name.
- "Namenesia" can set in at the most inappropriate times! Frantically, as you hear the third ring, you yell to your wife in the den, "Honey! What's Jack Hollis's wife's first name?"1985, Russell H. Dilday, Personal Computer: A New Tool for Ministers, →ISBN, page 80
- I'm Ira Flatow. Anyone who knows me realizes I suffer from namenesia. I'm sure you've heard it on the air. I routinely forget the names of my guests.2005 August 19, “Improving Memory”, in NPR
Examples of namenesia in a sentence
- namenesia -- "Disease" of forgetting names.2007, M. Larry Litwin, The ABC's of Strategic Communication: Thousands of Terms, Tips and Techniques, →ISBN, page 373:
- Although I blame my namenesia on the fact that I don't watch television.2009 December 22, “Remembering That Person's Name”, in Scientific American:
- Namenesia is a disease that only affects the memory retention of other people's names.2024, Rob Anderson, Gay Science: The Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Sterotypes, →ISBN:
Origin of namenesia
Blend of name + amnesia.
Questions about namenesia
- What does namenesia mean?
- Namenesia means an inability to recall someone's name.
- How do you use namenesia in a sentence?
- namenesia -- "Disease" of forgetting names.
- What part of speech is namenesia?
- Namenesia is a noun.
Words near namenesia in the dictionary
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