mental block
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
I knew his name perfectly well but I had a temporary block
Types & categories
- inability hypernym
- writer's block hyponym
Related & opposite
- blank out derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | blank out |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | inability |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | writer's block |