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Antonyms for forgetfulnessfor·get·ful·ness

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  1. forgetfulness

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

    Synonyms:
    oblivion, obliviousness, oversight, unconsciousness

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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"

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. forgetfulnessnoun

    Synonyms:
    amnesty, amnesia, oblivion, lethe, ecmnesia

How to use forgetfulness in a sentence?

  1. Appianus:

    The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness.

  2. Dave Duerson:

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

  3. Ted Turner:

    That's the main symptoms, and, forgetfulness.

  4. Plato:

    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.

  5. Jack London:

    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.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#556memory
#18411remembrance
#26262retrospect
#29088recollection
#63328forgetfulness
#70413reminiscence
#179976retrospection

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