Word of the week: Anomia

Anomia (noun)
[uh-noh-mee-uh]

This is the loss of the ability to name objects or recall names. So you might say “As he got older he began experiencing anomia.” We occasionally experience it in day-to-day situations too – when a word or name is “on the tip of our tongue” but we can’t remember it.

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