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Is there a name for knowing something is gone but not remembering what it was? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Sometimes I'll notice that a building that I used to drive by all the time is gone (leveled to the ground). I know it's gone, but I can't remember what it looked like or what was in it. I just know it's gone.

Is there a name for this?

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know I used to know a word for this, but I'm not sure what it was.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ha

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, that wasn't it.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Barankie

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago

I am now genuinely curious if this is a nonsense word or not.

[–] Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Interestingly I can't find a german word for this and usually we germans have an unspeakable long word for everything. weird.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I figured out of anyone y'all would have a good word for this experience.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What about Missenstuf?

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I don't know what it actually means, but it sounds like "missing stuff".

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you looking for the word, "forgotten"?

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Gone, but also forgotten.

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get this. I call it "deja durrr".

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I call them potholes

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Getting old

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Alzheimer's

[–] zemja@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gone but not remembered.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Out of the blue and into the black...

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's probably some really specific word in German for this, but I can't think of a single word in English that would fully describe what you're talking about.

[–] yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh course there is, it's:

Existenzerinnerungsverlust

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

German is crazy like that.

[–] yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was a joke ;)

There is no word for that.

(But to be fair, if there was, this one would kind of work)

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Well, shit: That sounded really plausible.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love the concept, don't know the name. Is "evanescent" approaching (I know it's an adjective but maybe it helps)?

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

evanescence then?

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

WAKE ME UP

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Presque Vu maybe?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

That totally happened to me the other day when I was visiting the town I grew up in. It's only a little over an hour away by car, but I hadn't walked around the downtown in years, and it's so different that I couldn't even remember what buildings used to be when they were replaced sometimes.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

In New Orleans you'll often hear "Ain't there no more."

As in, "hey wasn't there a great little cafe here before the storm?" "Yeah, but aint dere no mo"

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

saudade

edit: also, differently, mono no aware

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Both of these are a lot less specific, and refer to types of melancholy.

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

oh true. anemoia?

[–] XYZinferno@lemmy.basedcount.com 5 points 2 years ago

Reminds me a bit of Jamais Vu

It's not a perfect match to what you describe but it's defined as "the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but that nonetheless seems novel and unfamiliar."

In your case, you recognize there was a building, and recognize it should be familiar, but it still feels unfamiliar to you nevertheless.

Hopefully this is in the right direction lmao

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dementia

Edit: I figured for sure that giving the wrong answer would lead to the right answer immediately showing up in the replies... Sadly, I was wrong

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Virtually everyone over 40 visiting their former home town has dementia in that case.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"Passed out of memory"

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Alzheimer’s

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Life after the monitor

[–] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

This guy probably created one https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/