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noun
Forgetfulness  n.  
1.
The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
2.
Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. "A sweet forgetfulness of human care."
3.
Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
Synonyms: Forgetfulnes, Oblivion. Forgetfulness is Anglo-Saxon, and oblivion is Latin. The former commonly has reference to persons, and marks a state of mind; the latter commonly has reference to things, and indicates a condition into which they are sunk. We blame a man for his forgetfulness; we speak of some old custom as buried in oblivion. But this discrimination is not strictly adhered to.






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"Forgetfulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... said to himself, "but monuments to oblivion? They are not memorials of the dead, but memorials of the forgetfulness of the living. How vain it is to send a poor forsaken name, like the title page of a lost book, down the careless stream of time! Let me serve my generation, and ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald

... Manicamp, saluting the princess, "let us bury this affair altogether in forgetfulness, for it will probably never be ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... words, seemed intended to lull the soul into a forgetfulness of all beside, and fill it only with soft ideas:—it had at least this effect upon the lady, who had closed her eyes, and was in reality lost to every other sense than that of hearing.—Natura, either was, or pretended to be, equally transported, and sunk insensibly upon her bosom, without any ...
— Life's Progress Through The Passions - Or, The Adventures of Natura • Eliza Fowler Haywood

... them in their actual strife; to deal with questions, not in an abstract shape, but mixed up with the affections, passions, relations of human creatures, is a course which must lead him, it is thought, into a great forgetfulness of his office, and of all that is involved ...
— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley

... and as was the opinion of many at the time, rigid construction in the following year 1912 was ordered to be discontinued. This decision coincided with the disbanding of the Naval Air Service, and for a time rigid airships in this country were consigned to the limbo of forgetfulness. After the Naval Air Service had been reconstituted, the success which attended the Zeppelin airships in Germany could no longer be overlooked, and it was decided to make another attempt to build a rigid airship in conformity with existing Zeppelin construction. The ...
— British Airships, Past, Present, and Future • George Whale


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