15 Awesome Names For Things You Never Knew Had Names

3. Lethologica

We€™ve all felt that horribly elusive but perfectly right word caressing the tips of our tongues tantalizingly as we struggle to recall it, and all the mental anguish and subsequent relief that comes with it €“ turns out, it has a name: lethologica. Lethologica strictly refers to a debilitating disorder where this occurs frequently, but can refer to this universal phenomenon. The tip-of-the-tongue scenario occurs regardless of age, gender, or Native language, endlessly frustrating people from all walks of life. Though the causes of it are largely unknown, there are a few postulations about it: one, that it occurs when the memory of the word isn€™t strong enough to recall the word but enough to induce the state of lethologica, and another that posits that tip-of-tongue states arise when one tries to piece together a word from different clues.