TIPOFTHETONGUE

Tip of the tongue

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, sometimes called presque vu, is the failure to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent. The phenomenon's name comes from the saying, "It's on the tip of my tongue." The tip of the tongue phenomenon reveals that lexical access occurs in stages.

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tip of the tongue

Noun

  1. Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.


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