erasure
/ɪˈreɪʒə
/noun [mass noun]
1The removal of writing, recorded material, or data.The judges recorded their diving scores on cardboard "with a lot of erasure," she said....
- Some of these supraliminal frames are panels of video static, a screen equivalent of total erasure.
- It will only be these rough notes which will be liable to erasure.
Synonyms
deletion, rubbing out, wiping out/off;
crossing out, striking out, scoring out, blotting out, blanking out, scratching out, cancelling, cancellation;
effacement, expunction, expunging, excision, removal, obliteration, elimination;
censorship, censoring, bowdlerization
rare erasement
1.1The removal of all traces of something; obliteration: the erasure of prior history...
- Postmodern psychology argues for the erasure of the category of self.
- Others found comfort in the erasure of the recent past.
- The process of historical erasure may have started then.
- uninhabited
- uninhibited
- uninhibitedly
- uninhibitedness
- uninitiated
- uninjured
- uninspired
- uninspiring
- uninspiringly
- uninstal
- uninstall
- uninstaller
- uninstructed
- uninsulated
- uninsurable
- uninsured
- unintellectual
- unintelligence
- unintelligent
- unintelligently
- unintelligibility
- unintelligible
- unintelligibleness
- unintelligibly
- unintended