Usually means: Difficulty in recalling proper names.
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  1. Dysnomia, dysnomia: Wiktionary
  2. Dysnomia (deity), Dysnomia (disambiguation), Dysnomia (disorder), Dysnomia (moon), Dysnomia (mythology), Dysnomia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Dysnomia (disambiguation), Dysnomia: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dysnomia)

noun:  (Greek mythology) The daemon (minor deity) of lawlessness, listed by Hesiod among the daughters of Eris.
noun:  (astronomy) The only known moon of the dwarf planet Eris.
noun:  (medicine, pathology) Anomic aphasia, a condition affecting the memory that impairs the recall of words or names.
noun:  (neurology, psychology, developmental psychology) Impaired or deficient ability to recall words or names.
noun:  (countable) An incident of a person not recalling a word or name.

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