oblivion

Roget category 506

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.6. Extension of thought
›› 4.6.1. To the past

#506. Oblivion

noun

oblivion, obliviousness, lethe — forgetfulness etc. adj. — amnesia — obliteration of etc. 552, insensibility to the past etc. 823.
short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory — decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory — waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion.
amnesty, general pardon.
[deliberate or unconscious forgetting] repressed memory.

verb

forget — be forgetful etc. adj. — fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion — have a short memory etc. n., have no head.
forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other.
slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory — lose, lose sight of.
fail to recall, not be able to recall.
[cause oneself to forget] unlearn — efface etc. 552, discharge from the memory — consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets — think no more of etc. (turn the attention from) 458 — cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from — let bygones be bygones etc. (forgive) 918.

adjective

forgotten etc. v. — unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind — buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion — clean forgotten — gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection.
forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean — insensible to the past etc. 823 — heedless.

phrase

non mi ricordo [It] — the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at fault, being in fault.

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