senior moment

1. 1.

   a momentary lapse of memory (especially in older people)

   Broaderforgetfulness

Questions about senior moment

What does senior moment mean?

senior moment means "a momentary lapse of memory (especially in older people)".

Is senior moment a common word?

senior moment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.