1. A tendency to forget the names of even those people someone has known for years:'s: The elderly Mrs. Wright's husband noticed that she couldn't recall his name at all, so after seeing Dr. Smith, she was diagnosed with lethonomia.
2. The inability to recall the right name for objects: Mr. Hathaway was 95 years old and was identified as having a case of lethonomia because he had great difficulty in naming the items shown on the chart in Dr. Black's office. .