What are some opposite words for forgetfulness?
Antonyms for forgetfulnessfor·get·ful·ness
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term forgetfulness.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
forgetfulness
Antonyms:
memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospectionSynonyms:
oblivion, obliviousness, oversight, unconsciousness
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Princeton's WordNet
forgetfulnessnoun
tendency to forget
forgetfulnessnoun
unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember
"his forgetfulness increased as he grew older"
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How to use forgetfulness in a sentence?
The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness.
That's when Fred McNeill start to realize -- OK, yeah, the rage, the forgetfulness, the identity crisis.
That's the main symptoms, and, forgetfulness.
For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#556 | memory | |
#18411 | remembrance | |
#26262 | retrospect | |
#29088 | recollection | |
#63328 | forgetfulness | |
#70413 | reminiscence | |
#179976 | retrospection |
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