Sometimes I’ll notice that a building that I used to drive by all the time is gone (leveled to the ground). I know it’s gone, but I can’t remember what it looked like or what was in it. I just know it’s gone.
Is there a name for this?
I know I used to know a word for this, but I’m not sure what it was.
Ha
No, that wasn’t it.
Barankie
I am now genuinely curious if this is a nonsense word or not.
Interestingly I can’t find a german word for this and usually we germans have an unspeakable long word for everything. weird.
I figured out of anyone y’all would have a good word for this experience.
What about Missenstuf?
I don’t know what it actually means, but it sounds like “missing stuff”.
Are you looking for the word, “forgotten”?
Gone, but also forgotten.
I get this. I call it “deja durrr”.
I call them potholes
Getting old
Alzheimer’s
Gone but not remembered.
Out of the blue and into the black…
There’s probably some really specific word in German for this, but I can’t think of a single word in English that would fully describe what you’re talking about.
Oh course there is, it’s:
Existenzerinnerungsverlust
German is crazy like that.
It was a joke ;)
There is no word for that.
(But to be fair, if there was, this one would kind of work)
Love the concept, don’t know the name. Is “evanescent” approaching (I know it’s an adjective but maybe it helps)?
evanescence then?
WAKE ME UP
That totally happened to me the other day when I was visiting the town I grew up in. It’s only a little over an hour away by car, but I hadn’t walked around the downtown in years, and it’s so different that I couldn’t even remember what buildings used to be when they were replaced sometimes.
Presque Vu maybe?
In New Orleans you’ll often hear “Ain’t there no more.”
As in, “hey wasn’t there a great little cafe here before the storm?” “Yeah, but aint dere no mo”
saudade
edit: also, differently, mono no aware
Both of these are a lot less specific, and refer to types of melancholy.
oh true. anemoia?
Reminds me a bit of Jamais Vu
It’s not a perfect match to what you describe but it’s defined as “the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but that nonetheless seems novel and unfamiliar.”
In your case, you recognize there was a building, and recognize it should be familiar, but it still feels unfamiliar to you nevertheless.
Hopefully this is in the right direction lmao
Dementia
Edit: I figured for sure that giving the wrong answer would lead to the right answer immediately showing up in the replies… Sadly, I was wrong
Virtually everyone over 40 visiting their former home town has dementia in that case.
