senior moments
Brief forgetfulness episodes
Senior moments are brief lapses in memory or mental sharpness, typically attributed to aging.
The term is usually self-deprecating or gently teasing: I had a senior moment and forgot why I walked into the room.
Despite the name, people of any age use it to explain everyday forgetfulness.
- memory lapseBrief forgetting episode
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- agingGrowing older over time
- old ageAdvanced years of life
- amnesiaPathological loss of recall
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- aging humorretirement jokes, over the hill, old timer, geezer, old fogey
- blundersblunder, blunders, blundered, mistakes, botch
- cognitive agingcognitive decline, memory decline, memory loss, brain aging, aging brain
- Memory Lossamnesia, forgetting, forgetfulness, memory loss, memory lapse
senior momentsmental clarity
Sharpness of thought
total recall · sharp as a tack · photographic memory · mental acuity · on the ball
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