mental block

2 definitions found

mental block - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

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