forgettingn.
/fəˈɡɛtɪŋ/ 1. The action of forget v.; also, †the state of being unconscious, oblivion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [noun] > forgetfulness, oblivion
forgetelnessa1000
forgetel-shipc1330
forgetting1340
forgettingnessa1387
obliviona1393
unremembrancec1449
forgetness1474
forgetfulness1477
oubliance1477
obliviousness?1531
oblivium1699
irrecollection1738
obliviscence1775
irretention1827
irretentiveness1849
oblivescence1880
Punjab head1887
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [noun] > act of forgetting
forgetting1340
unmindinga1382
forgetfulness1398
forget1861
memory lapse1893
brain freeze1985
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 18 Ingratitude, þet is, uoryeti[n]ge of god and of his guodes.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxxiv. 1079 Wyne bredeþ in þe soule forȝetynge of angwissh.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 109 Fforȝetyng makyth a man in his schryfte to forȝete boþe smale synnes & grete.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Prætermissio, forgetynge, or leuinge out of a thynge.
1614 W. Barclay Nepenthes sig. A4 It maketh and induceth..the forgetting of all sorrowes and miseries.
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 79 I am not willing to discover the forgettings of reverend men.
1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 150 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting . View more context for this quotation
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [noun] > state of being forgotten, oblivion
forgettinga1050
oblivionc1425
oblivya1500
obliviance?1504
forgetfulness1561
obliviancy1820
forgottenness1924
a1050 Liber Scintill. lvi. (1889) 174 Heo na byð on forgytincge [L. oblivione].
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Cant. 498 Þou gaf til forgetynge all my synnys.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 236 That thilk mynde die not and falle not into forȝeting.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie i. 4 God had..prouided to preserue it from forgetting.
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forgettingadj.
/fəˈɡɛtɪŋ/ rare.
That forgets, forgetful.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective]
forgetelc1000
forgetful1382
mindlessa1425
obliviousc1450
unremembered1453
immemor1535
unremembering1540
unrecalling1594
immemorious1602
elapsive1652
remindless1657
unrecording1813
unretentive1825
forgetting1847
memoryless1857
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 20 A forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind.
1855 in H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang.
Derivatives
forˈgettingly adv. in a forgetful manner; forgetfully; through forgetfulness.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adverb]
obliviouslyc1487
forgettingly1607
forgetfullya1716
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. vi. sig. K4 I feare, I haue (forgettingly) transgrest Against the dignity of the Court. View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Hall Grounds Monarchy 52 Which..partly in this penury of Books, forgettingly I passe.
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