obliviousadj.

Brit.

/əˈblɪvɪəs/, U.S.

/əˈblɪviəs/

Forms: late Middle English obliuiows, late Middle English obliuyows, late Middle English oblyvious, late Middle English oblyvyous, late Middle English–1600s obliuious, late Middle English– oblivious, 1500s obliuiouse, 1500s oblyvius; also Scottish pre-1700 oblyuyous, pre-1700 oblyvyus.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin oblīviōsus.

Etymology: < classical Latin oblīviōsus forgetful, producing forgetfulness < oblīviōn- , oblīviō oblivion n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Middle French oblivieux that forgets easily (mid 15th cent. as obliuieux), causing forgetting or forgetfulness (early 16th cent.; French oblivieux).

a. That forgets or is given to forgetting; forgetful. Frequently with of. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective]

forgetelc1000

forgetful1382

mindlessa1425

obliviousc1450

unremembered1453

immemor1535

unremembering1540

unrecalling1594

immemorious1602

elapsive1652

remindless1657

unrecording1813

unretentive1825

forgetting1847

memoryless1857

c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 466 (MED) Oblyvyous antiquyte Hir odyr dedys saue thies, that wryten be, Hath worn awey without memoryall, As many mo daily it doth and shall.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 49 This emperour Claudius was so obliuiows þat, sone aftir he had killid his wyf, he asked why sche cam not to soper.

c1475 Mankind (1969) 879 Ȝe were obliuyows of my doctrine.

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 361 Ony resonable man sholde be remyssyue & oblyuyous of soo hye kyndenes for hym mynystred.

a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 478 He that hath an ere oblyvius, and febill stomake of affexion.

1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. 226^v Whan the mynde is obliuious and forgetfull.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 430 Gods memory is not so oblivious, that it can so soone forgett this covenaunt.

a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1618) Thinke not, deare Sir, we will be so obliuious.

1697 J. Locke 2nd Vindic. Reasonableness Christianity 213 (Seager) What shall we say to such an oblivious author?

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 370 All night I slept, oblivious of my pain.

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 25 The slow formality of an oblivious and drowsy exchequer.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 107 Happily for him, he was soon oblivious of this.

1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum xviii. 167 He had forgotten to acknowledge the Christmas gift; but, hoping that Mr. Harum had been equally oblivious, promised himself to repair the omission later on.

1961 H. C. Graef tr. J. von Rintelen Beyond Existentialism 172 Heidegger reproaches the earlier philosophers for having discussed only the mere notions of essence and individual ontic being, but, oblivious of being as they were, never being itself.

b. Unaware or unconscious of. With of, to. (Now the usual sense.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > [adjective]

unmindfula1382

unminda1400

mindlessa1425

indiligent1549

regardless1578

heedless1579

unheedy1579

unregarding?1585

unattentive1591

thoughtless1592

unobservant1615

unobservinga1628

tentless1636

unattending1637

inadvertent1653

inobservant1663

inadverting1678

incurious1691

wistless1747

unnoticing1751

unheeding1770

inattentive1785

unrecking1824

unnoting1826

oblivious1854

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > ignorant of something

unwittingc893

unwarec1374

unknowinga1398

ignorantc1425

unawares1549

unfraught1587

unintelligenta1616

unstudied1642

a stranger to1665

unconscious1678

unconscious1700

unskilled1725

oblivious1854

1854 H. Greeley Hints towards Reforms (ed. 2) vi. 183 The anti-reformer in Ireland is just as oblivious to the existence or the curability of evils there.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 341 He was so little given to observation as to be frequently oblivious of what was passing around him.

1891 ‘Q’ Noughts & Crosses 200 Half an hour later he stood, ankle-deep in water, groping for his shells and oblivious of the review, the firing that echoed far away, the flight of time—everything.

1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 173 Above them, as if entirely oblivious to their ranting, a glazed King Edward VII stared stolidly out of a Christmas lithograph.

1965 ‘W. Trevor’ Boarding-house vii. 87 Oblivious of that opposition, oblivious of almost everything except what separately occupied their minds.

1988 P. Cutting Children of Siege iii. 49 He ran about merrily, greeting people, oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion.

2002 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 14 Apr. g 1/1 Because of the drapes, many visitors came and went, oblivious to the beauty of the couple's back yard.

†2. Forgotten. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten

out of memorya1275

of minda1325

out of mindc1325

forlainc1330

unrememberedc1425

oblivious1535

forgotten1600

unretained1666

unrecollected1733

unrecalled1742

buried1806

evanished1829

unmemoried1829

unrevived1877

spark out1882

1535–6 in Southwell Visit. (1891) 140 Item I geve to sir James lee, vicar of caunton, for oblivious tithes and other, iijs. iiijd+.

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 13 His life a flash, his memory a dream, Oblivious down he drops in Lethe's stream.

3. Of or relating to forgetfulness; attended by, associated with, or in a state of oblivion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > relating to forgetfulness

oblivious1563

amnesiac1913

1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. E.v In deepe obliuious grounde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 45 Some sweet Obliuious Antidote.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 266 Wherefore let we then our faithful friends,..Lye thus astonisht on th' oblivious Pool?

1745 J. Thomson Tancred & Sigismunda v. v. 74 By th' oblivious Draught Of each sad toilsome Day, to Peace restor'd.

1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 306 A full but gentle river glides slowly..into a dark oblivious lake.

1823 C. Lamb My Relations in Elia 168 Consigned to the oblivious lumber-room.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxi. 253 She drove across the hill-top in the wending ways which led downwards—to oblivious obscurity.

1926 E. S. Babcock in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 101 His face had that stony, oblivious calm against which many an English wife must beat in vain.

1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah St. 233 She lay in that oblivious state, that trance-like, paralysing sleep.

2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. v. 9/1 Visitors transfixed by the tales of their excellent Acoustiguides stumbled into me, oblivious.

Compounds

oblivious transfer n. Computing and Telecommunications a kind of protocol, of particular importance in cryptography, which allows information to be transmitted in such a way that it may or may not be received successfully and the sender remains unaware of the outcome.

ΚΠ

1981 M. O. Rabin (title) (Techn. Memo TR-81, Aiken Computation Lab., Harvard Univ.) in Science 7 Aug. 1992 753/3 How to exchange secrets by oblivious transfer.

1988 I. Peterson Math. Tourist ii. 19 Bob picks a number at random and runs through the oblivious transfer. Depending on Alice's response, he may or may not be able to factor the..number.

1993 New Scientist 16 Jan. 28/2 In 1988, Claude Crépeau..with Joe Killian..demonstrated mathematically that all discreet decision-making problems can be reduced to a sequence of elementary operations called oblivious transfers.

1996 B. Schneier Appl. Cryptography (ed. 2) v. 117 Although there are many types of oblivious transfer—I have two secrets and you get one; I have n secrets and you get one; I have one secret which you get with probability ½; and so on–they are all equivalent.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	oblivious
释义	obliviousadj. Brit. /əˈblɪvɪəs/, U.S. /əˈblɪviəs/ Forms: late Middle English obliuiows, late Middle English obliuyows, late Middle English oblyvious, late Middle English oblyvyous, late Middle English–1600s obliuious, late Middle English– oblivious, 1500s obliuiouse, 1500s oblyvius; also Scottish pre-1700 oblyuyous, pre-1700 oblyvyus. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin oblīviōsus. Etymology: < classical Latin oblīviōsus forgetful, producing forgetfulness < oblīviōn- , oblīviō oblivion n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Middle French oblivieux that forgets easily (mid 15th cent. as obliuieux), causing forgetting or forgetfulness (early 16th cent.; French oblivieux). 1. a. That forgets or is given to forgetting; forgetful. Frequently with of. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] forgetelc1000 forgetful1382 mindlessa1425 obliviousc1450 unremembered1453 immemor1535 unremembering1540 unrecalling1594 immemorious1602 elapsive1652 remindless1657 unrecording1813 unretentive1825 forgetting1847 memoryless1857 c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 466 (MED) Oblyvyous antiquyte Hir odyr dedys saue thies, that wryten be, Hath worn awey without memoryall, As many mo daily it doth and shall. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 49 This emperour Claudius was so obliuiows þat, sone aftir he had killid his wyf, he asked why sche cam not to soper. c1475 Mankind (1969) 879 Ȝe were obliuyows of my doctrine. c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 361 Ony resonable man sholde be remyssyue & oblyuyous of soo hye kyndenes for hym mynystred. a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 478 He that hath an ere oblyvius, and febill stomake of affexion. 1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. 226^v Whan the mynde is obliuious and forgetfull. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 430 Gods memory is not so oblivious, that it can so soone forgett this covenaunt. a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1618) Thinke not, deare Sir, we will be so obliuious. 1697 J. Locke 2nd Vindic. Reasonableness Christianity 213 (Seager) What shall we say to such an oblivious author? 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 370 All night I slept, oblivious of my pain. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 25 The slow formality of an oblivious and drowsy exchequer. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 107 Happily for him, he was soon oblivious of this. 1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum xviii. 167 He had forgotten to acknowledge the Christmas gift; but, hoping that Mr. Harum had been equally oblivious, promised himself to repair the omission later on. 1961 H. C. Graef tr. J. von Rintelen Beyond Existentialism 172 Heidegger reproaches the earlier philosophers for having discussed only the mere notions of essence and individual ontic being, but, oblivious of being as they were, never being itself. b. Unaware or unconscious of. With of, to. (Now the usual sense.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > [adjective] unmindfula1382 unminda1400 mindlessa1425 indiligent1549 regardless1578 heedless1579 unheedy1579 unregarding?1585 unattentive1591 thoughtless1592 unobservant1615 unobservinga1628 tentless1636 unattending1637 inadvertent1653 inobservant1663 inadverting1678 incurious1691 wistless1747 unnoticing1751 unheeding1770 inattentive1785 unrecking1824 unnoting1826 oblivious1854 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > ignorant of something unwittingc893 unwarec1374 unknowinga1398 ignorantc1425 unawares1549 unfraught1587 unintelligenta1616 unstudied1642 a stranger to1665 unconscious1678 unconscious1700 unskilled1725 oblivious1854 1854 H. Greeley Hints towards Reforms (ed. 2) vi. 183 The anti-reformer in Ireland is just as oblivious to the existence or the curability of evils there. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 341 He was so little given to observation as to be frequently oblivious of what was passing around him. 1891 ‘Q’ Noughts & Crosses 200 Half an hour later he stood, ankle-deep in water, groping for his shells and oblivious of the review, the firing that echoed far away, the flight of time—everything. 1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 173 Above them, as if entirely oblivious to their ranting, a glazed King Edward VII stared stolidly out of a Christmas lithograph. 1965 ‘W. Trevor’ Boarding-house vii. 87 Oblivious of that opposition, oblivious of almost everything except what separately occupied their minds. 1988 P. Cutting Children of Siege iii. 49 He ran about merrily, greeting people, oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion. 2002 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 14 Apr. g 1/1 Because of the drapes, many visitors came and went, oblivious to the beauty of the couple's back yard. †2. Forgotten. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > forgotten out of memorya1275 of minda1325 out of mindc1325 forlainc1330 unrememberedc1425 oblivious1535 forgotten1600 unretained1666 unrecollected1733 unrecalled1742 buried1806 evanished1829 unmemoried1829 unrevived1877 spark out1882 1535–6 in Southwell Visit. (1891) 140 Item I geve to sir James lee, vicar of caunton, for oblivious tithes and other, iijs. iiijd+. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 13 His life a flash, his memory a dream, Oblivious down he drops in Lethe's stream. 3. Of or relating to forgetfulness; attended by, associated with, or in a state of oblivion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective] > relating to forgetfulness oblivious1563 amnesiac1913 1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. E.v In deepe obliuious grounde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 45 Some sweet Obliuious Antidote. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 266 Wherefore let we then our faithful friends,..Lye thus astonisht on th' oblivious Pool? View more context for this quotation 1745 J. Thomson Tancred & Sigismunda v. v. 74 By th' oblivious Draught Of each sad toilsome Day, to Peace restor'd. 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 306 A full but gentle river glides slowly..into a dark oblivious lake. 1823 C. Lamb My Relations in Elia 168 Consigned to the oblivious lumber-room. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxi. 253 She drove across the hill-top in the wending ways which led downwards—to oblivious obscurity. 1926 E. S. Babcock in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 101 His face had that stony, oblivious calm against which many an English wife must beat in vain. 1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah St. 233 She lay in that oblivious state, that trance-like, paralysing sleep. 2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. v. 9/1 Visitors transfixed by the tales of their excellent Acoustiguides stumbled into me, oblivious. Compounds oblivious transfer n. Computing and Telecommunications a kind of protocol, of particular importance in cryptography, which allows information to be transmitted in such a way that it may or may not be received successfully and the sender remains unaware of the outcome. ΚΠ 1981 M. O. Rabin (title) (Techn. Memo TR-81, Aiken Computation Lab., Harvard Univ.) in Science 7 Aug. 1992 753/3 How to exchange secrets by oblivious transfer. 1988 I. Peterson Math. Tourist ii. 19 Bob picks a number at random and runs through the oblivious transfer. Depending on Alice's response, he may or may not be able to factor the..number. 1993 New Scientist 16 Jan. 28/2 In 1988, Claude Crépeau..with Joe Killian..demonstrated mathematically that all discreet decision-making problems can be reduced to a sequence of elementary operations called oblivious transfers. 1996 B. Schneier Appl. Cryptography (ed. 2) v. 117 Although there are many types of oblivious transfer—I have two secrets and you get one; I have n secrets and you get one; I have one secret which you get with probability ½; and so on–they are all equivalent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1450
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