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Regarding networks; is there a colloquially accepted term for when one has a ton of descriptive words (furry, bread sized, purrs when you pet them, claws, domesticated, hunts mice, etc) but you do not have the colloquially accepted term (cat) for the network? I have searched high and low and the most I have found is reverse defintion search, but no actual term.
Not quite what you're looking for I think, but if someone is having that problem they might have anomic aphasia.
"Not having a word for it"? Or in the technical vocabulary of linguistics, the concept is not "lexicalised".
Sounds kind of like the Tip of the Tongue Effect
That's a particular subcase of it, when you know that there's a word for that concept and you've heard it but you can't remember it. But other times it's more like “there should be a word for this”.
However, that's distinct from what gmzamz asked about: occasions when "you do not have the colloquially accepted term" for something.
I've heard "anomia" and "being able to talk all around the idea of an [X] but not the word [X] itself".