forgetfulness
/fəˈɡɛtfʊlnɪs/ noun C2- The quality of being forgetful; proneness to let slip from the mind.
- Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
- Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention. · forgetfulness of duty
Plural forgetfulnesses
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Come, now, I have hopes of obtaining what I have been for years endeavoring to persuade the marquise to promise; namely, a perfect amnesty and forgetfulness of the past.”
Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it invests all things of the mind with forgetfulness, seemed to have respected these signs, which apparently had been made with some degree of regularity, and probably with a definite purpose.
An error I readily forgive, but wilful negligence or forgetfulness, never.
“Ah, indeed?” said the major, who, seeing the object of his journey frustrated by the absence of the papers, feared also that his forgetfulness might give rise to some difficulty concerning the 48,000 francs—“ah, indeed, that is a fortunate circumstance; yes, that really is lucky, for it never occurred to me to bring them.”
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