filteramnesia

/ˈfɪltər ˌæmˈniːziə/nounVerified New

Also in: Filtervergess (Deutsch) · filtamnesia (Español) · filtoubli (Français)

The household-wide forgetting that range hoods, vacuums, and water jugs contain filters.

Filteramnesia is exposed only by failure: the hood that no longer lifts steam, the vacuum that breathes through a felt blanket, the kettle jug that has filtered the same three years repeatedly. Replacement filters are then bought, installed with ceremony, and forgotten again on the same terms. The cycle is annual and beloved.

Etym. — filter + amnesia — the forgetting, replaced by the failure, replaced by the forgetting.

Rel. — descaledebt · bulbfleet

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