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you will remember it one day during some mundane task and then have to google the word to find out why you suddenly said that word.
 
Nelsonian blindness?

Probably not what the OP was after but I stumbled across it and will now endeavour to regularly it everyday conversation:

Before the Battle of Copenhagen, Nelson famously clapped his telescope to his blind eye and declared that he could not see the signal demanding his withdrawal.

(The phrase is now also used as a term of English law in order to denote the dishonesty of one who deliberately refrains from making the enquiries which an honest person would make.)

Source: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/214545/how-do-you-describe-someone-who-can-hear-you-or-see-you-but-pretends-or-ignores
 
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