Looking it up just kinda feels like cheating, y’know? Or at least throwing in the towel.
There’s probably a word for it in German or Swedish. I bet it’s long and hard to pronounce, maybe with a non-English pronunciation symbol.
Google translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.
I’d be surprised if there isn’t a German word for it
Generally it is literally called a “tip-of-the-tongue” state in psych literature. Presque vu is the “fancy” french term for it, and means almost seen, similar to deja vu (already seen).
E: as a sidenote, I am fairly sure Vsauce had a video on this.
I thought the post title was a joke. Like you couldn’t remember the word you were thinking of to describe when you can’t think of a word.
Yes I did see the irony at the time of writing
Is there a word for when there’s a word that’s on the tip of your tongue but it turns out the word doesn’t actually exist?
Flitung
Something like onamanfuckmeah
I’m partial the term ‘wonder kill’ for when one does look it up.
CRS syndrome.
I always experience a phenomenon in which no matter how hard I wrack my brain trying to think of the thing that’s on the tip of my tongue, as soon as I go to look it up or ask somebody, it suddenly comes to my mind right before they tell me the answer.
Sounds like it could be called “trivial pursuit”
