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forgetfulness|fəˈgɛtfʊlnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being forgetful.
1. The quality of being apt to forget, the state of forgetting.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 19 Establisshe & ease..thy foryetfulnesse with thyn remembraunce. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. iii. 112 a, Where ouer much cold is..there is euer muche forgetfulnesse. 1699Bentley Phal. 282 This..he did not do out of design, but pure forgetfullness. 1725Pope Odyss. xii. 366 Each in slumber shares A sweet forgetfulness of human cares. 1783Ld. Hailes Antiq. Chr. Ch. iv. 81 note, Such was..the constitutional forgetfulness of Claudius. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxx, He smiled upon all present in happy forgetfulness of having exhibited symptoms of pugnacity.
2. The condition of forgetting or losing recollection of everything.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. i. (1495) 440 In Boecia ben two welles, that one makith good mynde, and that other makyth foryetfulnesse. 14..Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. 116 Euer with deth cometh forgetfulnes. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 8 O gentle Sleepe..thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids downe And steepe my Sences in Forgetfulnesse.
3. The state of being forgotten, oblivion. ? Obs.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xviii. (1634) 704 This Masse..shamefully..putteth his death in forgetfulnesse. 1663Charleton Chor. Gigant. 5 Monuments themselves are subject to Forgetfulness even while they remain. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Mallet, [His] Amyntor and Theodora..is now lost in forgetfulness. 1829Lytton Devereux i. xiv, The forgetfulness of one buried is nothing to the forgetfulness of one disgraced.
4. Disregard, inattention, neglect.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 272 It doeth kindle in his mynde, forgetfulnesse of himselfe. 1757Johnson Rambler No. 180 ⁋5 He..naturally sinks from omission to forgetfulness of social duties. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 211 Victory sometimes produces forgetfulness of education. |