Please help, I can't think of this word:

[Catfight]

I've been stuck because I cannot for the life of me remember this word: The meaning is an inappropriate emotional response to a situation. For instance, laughing at a funeral. It's one word, but I cannot think of it, any help would be appreciated so I can go one with my life!

[david_vincent]

1. Malapropism?

[markses]

2. faux pas?

n/t

[latebloomer]

3. Schadenfreude?

[charlie]

4. Solecism? n/t

[cosmicdot]

5. Schizophrenia?

[Catfight]

6. It's an inappropriate emotional response

It's driving everyone and myself included crazy. The emphasis is the emotional, sort of like visceral.

[LynzM]

7. I can't remember the word, either

Have a friend who's a walking dictionary, will ask him later.

In the meantime, google "inappropriate affect"

good luck!

[Catfight]

10. You're the best, thanks

at least someone knows what I'm after!

[lectrobyte]

8. emotional incontinence <nt>

[lectrobyte]

9. pseudobulbar affect <nt>

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

11. the giggles

[Catfight]

24. LOL

[BarbaRosa]

12. Bushism?

.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. cognitive? a cognitive deficit .....cognitive dissonance?

:shrug:

[calimary]

14. Incongruous?

Inappropriate.
Tasteless.
Insensitive.
Untimely.
Insensitive.
Knuckle-headed.
Callous.
Heartless.
Thoughtless.
Scmucky.
bush-like.

[Catfight]

23. This may be it....but I know there is one word...

I think on an old cassette of the Princeton Word review has it...so I'm confident I've heard it as one word, I just can't get it. Sorry if I'm driving anyone else crazy, it's because we've all heard it at one time.

[Katarina]

15. Apathy? n/t

[cybildisobedience]

16. sociopathic?

[Avalux]

17. psychosis,

emotional lability?

[mdmc]

19. Inappropriate emotional response. For example, silliness or laughter at..

Inappropriate emotional response. For example, silliness or laughter at a serious moment.

As listed as a symptom for mental illness. Are you looking for a word that describes this behavior?

[Touchdown]

18. Callous?

cal·lous P

Pronunciation Key (kls)
adj.

1.Having calluses; toughened: callous skin on the elbow.
2.Emotionally hardened; unfeeling: a callous indifference to the suffering of others.

[lectrobyte]

20. It's driving me bananas too, here are some more

alien, bizarre, conflicting, contradictory, disconsonant, discordant, disparate, distorted, divergent, extraneous, fantastic, fitful, foreign, illogical, improper, inappropriate, inapropos, inapt, incoherent, incompatible, incongruent, inconsistent, irreconcilable, irregular, jumbled, loose, lopsided, mismatched, rambling, screwy, shifting, twisted, unavailing, unbalanced, unbecoming, unconnected, uncoordinated, uneven, unintelligible, unpredictable, unrelated, unsuitable, unsuited

[BurtWorm]

22. I don't believe there is one word for it.

I think "inappropriate affect" is le mot juste--or les mots justes.

[Kong]

21. Gaffe

[Catfight]

25. I believe it's INDECOROUS

I found it by searching Gaffe, so thank you. I'm about 99% sure this was the word I was trying to think of. Again, thank you everyone for indulging my obsession.