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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental blankness |
| Synonyms: | Lethe, abeyance, amnesia, carelessness, disregard, forgetfulness, inadvertence, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, neglect, nirvana*, obliviousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, unmindfulness |
| Antonyms: | awareness, consciousness, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Concept: | Oblivion. |
| Category: | 1. To the Past |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
oblivion, obliviousness, lethe; forgetfulness; obliteration of, insensibility to the past [more]., short memory, treacherous 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.
-verbs
forget; be forgetful; fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion; have a short memory, 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., unlearn; efface , discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of (turn the attention from); cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones (forgive).
-adjectives
forgotten; 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; heedless.
-phrases
non mi ricordo; the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at (or in) fault.
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| Antonyms: | memory |
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| Main Entry: | coma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | blackout, dullness, faint, hebetude, insensibility, lethargy, oblivion, sleep, slumber, somnolence, stupor, swoon, syncope, torpidity, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | alertness, consciousness, wakefulness |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| Main Entry: | disregard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignoring |
| Synonyms: | apathy, brush-off, contempt, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disinterest, disrespect, forgetting, heedlessness, inadvertence, inattention, indifference, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, neglect, neglecting, negligence, oblivion, omission, omitting, overlooking, oversight, scorn, slight, slighting, the cold shoulder, unconcern, unmindfulness |
| Notes: | ignore is properly used of things that are present in our surroundings; but for things like rules, conventions, stipulations, contracts, the right word is disregard |
| Antonyms: | attention, esteem, honor, note, regard, respect |
| Main Entry: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consistent inability to remember |
| Synonyms: | absentmindedness, abstraction, amnesia, blackout, blank, blockout, carelessness, dreaminess, fugue, heedlessness, hypomnesia, inattention, lapse of memory, laxness, lethe, limbo, loss of memory, negligence, nirvana, oblivion, obliviousness, paramnesia, repression, short memory, suppression |
| Antonyms: | attentiveness, heed, mindfulness, remembering |
| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unintelligence, inexperience |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
| Antonyms: | competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | limbo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | Siberia, demilitarized zone, left field, nothingness, nowhere, oblivion, out there |
| Antonyms: | certainty, certitude, sureness, surety |
| Main Entry: | nothing/nothingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness, nonexistence |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, aught, blank, cipher, extinction, fly speck, insignificancy, naught, nihility, nobody, nonbeing, nonentity, not anything, nought, nullity, obliteration, oblivion, shutout, trifle, void, wind*, zero*, zilch, zip |
| Antonyms: | capacity, fullness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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