memory gaps
Holes in recall
Memory gaps are periods or events that a person cannot recall.
The term usually implies something should be remembered but isn't—whether from normal forgetting, trauma, intoxication, or neurological conditions.
She has memory gaps from the accident.
Unlike simple forgetfulness, memory gaps suggest missing chunks rather than fuzzy details: The medication caused memory gaps that worried her.
- lapsesTemporary failures or expirations
- senior momentBrief memory lapse
- forgettingFailing to retain memories
- drawing a blankUnable to remember
- blackoutComplete power loss
blacked out · amnesia · blanks · holes · fuzzy · hazy · brain fog · fragments · lost · lost time · missing · trauma · dementia · recall · blur · patchy · disconnected · repressed
- hangoverhangover, hungover, morning after, rough night, one too many
- hangoversheadache, nausea, thirst, dry mouth, fatigue
- amnesiaanterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, dissociative amnesia, traumatic amnesia, selective amnesia
- Memory Lossamnesia, forgetting, forgetfulness, dementia, Alzheimer's
- Memory Themesflashbacks, amnesia, nostalgia, deja vu, recall
- self-deceptiondenial, delusion, wishful thinking, rationalization, willful blindness
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