forgetnessn.
/fəˈɡɛtnɪs/ rare.
Forgetfulness.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [noun] > forgetfulness, oblivion
forgetelnessa1000
forgetel-shipc1330
forgetting1340
forgettingnessa1387
obliviona1393
unremembrancec1449
forgetness1474
forgetfulness1477
oubliance1477
obliviousness?1531
oblivium1699
irrecollection1738
obliviscence1775
irretention1827
irretentiveness1849
oblivescence1880
Punjab head1887
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 131 The vice of glotonye prouoketh lecherye, wherof cometh forgetenes of his mynde.
1892 Daily News 11 Oct. 4/7 It is easier to imagine the disappearance of Westminster Abbey from the face of the earth, the forgetness that such a place ever existed among men, than, etc.
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n.1474- as as) i stand before you
- as as) i stand here
- as bald as a coot
- as bald bare as a coot
- as bald black as a coot
- as bare as one's hand
- as best
- as best one can
- as best one may
- as big as a house
- as big as bull-beef
- as big as bullbeef
- as billy-be-damned
- as billybedamned
- as black as a crow
- as black as coal
- as black as one'a hat
- as black as one's hat
- as black as the ace of spades
- as black as the crook
- as black as the earl of hell's waistcoat
- as black in early use also swart as coal
- as black, or ugly, as sin
- as blithe as a laverock
- as blive