Search Result for "mental_block":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension;
- Example: "I knew his name perfectly well but I had a temporary block"
[syn: block, mental block]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mental block n 1: 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" [syn: block, mental block]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "mental block": agnosia, block, blocking, conversion, defense mechanism, delirium, delusion, delusion of persecution, disorientation, flight of ideas, hallucination, hallucinosis, mental confusion, nihilism, nihilistic delusion, paralogia, psychological block, repression, sublimation, suppression, symbolization