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UK
/fəɡˈɛtfəlnəs/
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NOUN
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unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember
his forgetfulness increased as he grew older - tendency to forget
How To Use forgetfulness In A Sentence
- Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness. Literature and Life (Complete)
- The author suggests that in a fruitful search for truth we must experience a self-forgetfulness that is not self-annihilation, but a form of pleasure.
- Forgetfulness and Famine and tearful Sorrows, Fightings also, Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
- My friend Phil Proctor just sent along a poem that I much enjoyed, ‘Forgetfulness,’ by Billy Collins - and I rarely enjoy unrhymed poems.
- With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- How long will humanity continue to suffer in their forgetfulness?
- Ordinary forgetfulness that emerges after a trauma must not be confused with amnesia for the trauma.
- He knew, as he sat with clenched hands and staring eyes, that chiefly he was longing for a woman -- a woman whose eyes and lips and sunny hair haunted him after months of forgetfulness, and whose face smiled at him luringly, now, from out the leaping flashes of fire -- tempting him, calling him over a thousand miles of space. Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police
- She had learned the hard way a long time ago that forgetfulness was considered negligence.
- Snoopiness, gossip, toying with the occult, reluctance to do what is good, forgetfulness of God's will, factionalism, and many other failings are as much manifestations of concupiscence as disordered sexual impulses.