memory slip
Forgot the thing
A memory slip is a minor, momentary failure to recall something—a name, a word, where you put your keys.
The term emphasizes the smallness and normalcy of the lapse: Just a memory slip, nothing to worry about.
Unlike more serious memory problems, a slip suggests the information will return shortly.
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- forgetfulnessFailure to retain information
- blankWithout marks or content
- drawing a blankUnable to remember
- senior momentBrief memory lapse
brain fog · tip of tongue · on the tip · forgotten · hazy · fading · recall · fuzzy · lost train of thought · distraction · absentminded · blackout · gap · fleeting · misremember · blanking · spacing out · brain fart
- Memory Lossamnesia, forgetting, forgetfulness, dementia, Alzheimer's
- absent-mindednessabsent-minded, forgetfulness, distraction, spacing out, zoning out
- audio flawswrong note, missed note, clipping, distortion, hum
- speech errorsmispronunciation, malapropism, malapropisms, spoonerism, spoonerisms
memory sliptotal recall
Complete, perfect remembrance
photographic memory · vivid memory · eidetic memory · remembering · mental clarity
memory slipamnesia
Pathological loss of recall
dementia · retrograde amnesia · anterograde amnesia · Alzheimer's disease · memory wipe
memory, slip, memo, memoir, memoirs, memorial, memorialize, memorization, memorize