Urban Amnesia

Urban Amnesia is a symptom often experienced by curious people who hear a word and need to look it up.

It occurs when, in a public situation, someone hears an interesting word and doesn't want to look like an idiot and ask what it means. At that time, thinking to themselves "I'll look it up on Urbandictionary later!" then, upon reaching an internet source, you experience a total blackout and cannot remember the word you were going to look up.

John: Yo dude, I pulled an Iron Horse the other day

Me: NICE dude *thinks* (what the fuck is that?)

*later on that evening*

Me: okayyyy *urbandictionary* FFFFFFFUUUUUUU WHAT WAS THAT WORD!?!?!? D:
*Suffers from Urban Amnesia

by adambeast308 June 9, 2011

amnesia vu

v. the act of not remembering something that has happened before.

"It seems like I've already done this, I think I'm having amnesia vu."

by the Zach of the Nations January 22, 2009

pregnancy amnesia

when a woman forgets how miserable it is to be pregnant and willingly agrees to get pregnant for a second (or third +) time. It often occurs in conjunction with or immediately following the contraction of baby fever after her other children have reached toddler age.

Kerrie: Did you hear that Melissa is trying to get pregnant again?

Ashley: Yeah, she must have pregnancy amnesia.

by M in the big D March 12, 2011

Work amnesia

When told to work or have to you automatically "forget".

Boss: I want this paperwork on my desk in an hour!
Worker: uh OK
Boss: Where's the paperwork?
Worker: I forgot I have a serious case of work amnesia.

by Wow I forgot my name September 21, 2011

Word of The Day Amnesia

Its what happens when you come to UD to search a word, but get hooked into all of the new 'word of the days' and by the time you finish reading them, you have forgotten what you were going to look up.

In more extreme cases you forget you were even going to look up a word.

1. "Damnit! I forgot what I was going to search! I'm having Word of The Day Amnesia! Hmm let me switch back to the facebook tab and see if the word is there."

2. "Those were some pretty funny 'word of the days', oh well back to youtube..."

by MilkySituation January 4, 2011

lacunar amnesia

Partial memory loss, specifically of an isolated event.

Very conveniently (and in some cases thankfully) tends to happen to people after a night of drunken revelry.

Also a very common plot element of bad romance novels and bodice rippers.

Which is not to say that it's not used in books and movies with an actually good plot. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" comes to mind.

"The way those deaths occurred, any reaction is possible including lacunar amnesia."
—And The Children Shall Lead

by edenz February 19, 2011

name amnesia

Not being able to remember a name after being told multiple times.

John had the worst name amnesia last night. He asked for Ashley's name at least 5 times and could not remember it.

by word_connoisseur February 21, 2009