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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. forgetfulness

    Synonyms:
    oblivion, obliviousness, oversight, unconsciousness

    Antonyms:
    memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection

Princeton's WordNet

  1. forgetfulnessnoun

    tendency to forget

  2. forgetfulnessnoun

    unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember

    "his forgetfulness increased as he grew older"

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Dictionary of English Synonymes2.0 / 1 vote

  1. forgetfulnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    aptness to forget, failure of memory

  2. forgetfulnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    OBLIVION

  3. forgetfulnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    negligence, inattention, carelessness, heedlessness

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. forgetfulnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    amnesty, amnesia, oblivion, lethe, ecmnesia

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "forgetfulness":

    oblivion, distraction

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#10114oversight
#21253oblivion
#23309distraction
#56268unconsciousness
#63328forgetfulness
#260976obliviousness

How to use forgetfulness in a sentence?

  1. William Wordsworth:

    Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

  2. Haimer abdou:

    Forgetfulness generates the meaning of regeneration.

  3. Sorel Vorster:

    Most common symptoms are headaches in the back of the head or upper part of the neck, and more serious symptoms are things like numbness or tingling around the face or tongue, weakness in arms or legs, difficulty swallowing, poor balance, difficulty walking and cognitive complaints like episodes of forgetfulness or episodes of unusual behavior.

  4. Dave Duerson:

    That's when Fred McNeill start to realize -- OK, yeah, the rage, the forgetfulness, the identity crisis.

  5. Ted Turner:

    That's the main symptoms, and, forgetfulness.


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