单词 | obliviousness |
释义 | obliviousnessn. The state or quality of being forgetful, unaware, or unconscious. 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 ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye iii. sig. h6 I wondre what obliuiousnes is comen vppon him. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. D.iiv Imoderate slepe..induceth and causeth oblyuyousnes. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Obliviousness, forgetfulness. 1818 T. Doubleday Sonnets & Poems xxxvii Tranced in obliviousness; whom pharmacy Can hurt no further if it cannot heal. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 530 This imputation of extraordinary weakness and obliviousness. 1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Roy & Viola I. 74 The obliviousness of lovers to anything but themselves is truly amusing. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders vii. 49 Memories revived after an interval of obliviousness. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 5 Theories of right and wrong in complete obliviousness to the evolutionary, the struggle, the economic sources from which our notions of morals have been derived. 1934 Jrnl. Philos. 31 680 The one betokens a lack of realism, the other an obliviousness and insensibility to impending tragedy. 1968 H. Brodkey in New Yorker 27 Apr. 76 She appeared almost saintly in her obliviousness to the rudeness and contemptuous mood of the two on the couch. 1985 G. Naylor Linden Hills 256 True insanity..gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1531 |
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