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the word you can't remember for not remembering words.
means a language disorder marked by trouble recalling words or names on demand, even though you know exactly what you mean.
from from greek dys- (bad, difficult) plus onoma (name) — literally naming-badly, the linguistic cousin of dyslexia and dysgraphia.
tip of tongueclassic symptom: word feels one synapse away.
not memory lossthe concept survives, only its label vanishes.
also a moonpluto's moon dysnomia is named for lawlessness, unrelated.
common in aphasiaoften follows stroke or brain injury.