The rat under your hat took a smoke break. But if you’re looking for something with a fancy, academic edge, the word you want is lethologica. Despite its century-old print debut in a medical ...

Lethologica is the technical term for this type of forgetting. Like many other English terms associated with the mind, lethologica is a modern word derived from classical Greek. In this case ...

Termed “lethologica”, or more often a “tip of the tongue” state or syndrome, “You can’t talk to anybody, in any culture, in ...

But in rehearsals for the production “Lethologica,” that forgetfulness had a certain irony. The show’s director, sophomore Ryan Dean, defined “lethologica” as the inability to remember something you ...

Language is a delight, but not always: it is subject to afflictions too. The most familiar is lethologica, the condition you suffer when you can't remember the right word for the thought you are ...

Why does the brain go into such a tizzy, when a word is just out of reach? Why are we certain we know the first letter, yet usually have it wrong? Take a look. It feels like the brain is slipping ...

Lethologica is derived from the Ancient Greek words lethe, or forgetfulness, and logikos, which means “of or relating to thought or reason”.