Looking it up just kinda feels like cheating, y’know? Or at least throwing in the towel.

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    Let me rephrase that: I never heard one. There is a word for tip of the tongue but not for the concrete situation OP described. I mean the possibility to just look up stuff wherever you are is a very recent development so it makes sense that a word that incorporates this isn’t invented yet.

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      Still don’t believe you. Just smash a sentence together or whatever y’all do. We need you. Latin doesn’t do this.

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        I invented one for you:

        Zungenspitzendilemma, das

        When you have something stuck at the tip of your tongue, but looking it up feels like cheating.

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          We’re best friends now. Do another one: “when an Internet stranger connects with you over an infinitesimally small and unlikely shared idea or experience, and for the first time in your life, you don’t feel alone on an earth with 7 billion humans, and you have a best friend”