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obliviousness
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obliviousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | oblivion |
| 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
| Main Entry: | nescience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, illiterateness, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unawareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unconsciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unfamiliarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Oblivion. |
| Category: | 1. To the Past |
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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.
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| Antonyms: | memory |
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