Forgetfulness
[fɚ'gɛtfəlnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) tendency to forget.
(noun.) unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember; 'his forgetfulness increased as he grew older'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
(n.) Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
(n.) Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Aptness to forget, failure of memory.[2]. Oblivion.[3]. Negligence, inattention, carelessness, heedlessness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Examples
- There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my elbow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Few letters home of successful men or women display the graces of modesty and self-forgetfulness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Indulgence in remembrance, and indulgence in forgetfulness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- One reads in vain through the monstrous accumulations of Napoleonic literature for a single record of self-forgetfulness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish, self-reproach, she could find no interval of ease or forgetfulness. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- That sublime self-forgetfulness of women, which yields so much and asks so little, turned all her thoughts from herself to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As it was now pitch dark within their tiny aerie they lay down upon their blankets to try to gain, through sleep, a brief respite of forgetfulness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He had not really cared or thought about this point of forgetfulness until it occurred to him in his invention of annoyances for Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sleep, the sovereign balm, at length steeped her tearful eyes in forgetfulness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I felt my head, in an ecstasy of spiritual self-forgetfulness, sinking on his shoulder. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His own forgetfulness of her was worse than anything which they had done. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But their self-forgetfulness charmed me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- My situation, aggravated by the sense of my own miserable weakness and forgetfulness of myself, now too late awakened in me, was becoming intolerable. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I closed my eyes; I put his hand, in a kind of spiritual self-forgetfulness, to my lips. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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