obliviousnessn.
/əˈblɪvɪəsnəs/, U.S. /əˈblɪviəsnəs/ The state or quality of being forgetful, unaware, or unconscious.
ΘΚΠ
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
?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye iii. sig. h6 I wondre what obliuiousnes is comen vppon him.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. D.iiv Imoderate slepe..induceth and causeth oblyuyousnes.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Obliviousness, forgetfulness.
1818 T. Doubleday Sonnets & Poems xxxvii Tranced in obliviousness; whom pharmacy Can hurt no further if it cannot heal.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 530 This imputation of extraordinary weakness and obliviousness.
1880 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Roy & Viola I. 74 The obliviousness of lovers to anything but themselves is truly amusing.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders vii. 49 Memories revived after an interval of obliviousness.
1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 5 Theories of right and wrong in complete obliviousness to the evolutionary, the struggle, the economic sources from which our notions of morals have been derived.
1934 Jrnl. Philos. 31 680 The one betokens a lack of realism, the other an obliviousness and insensibility to impending tragedy.
1968 H. Brodkey in New Yorker 27 Apr. 76 She appeared almost saintly in her obliviousness to the rudeness and contemptuous mood of the two on the couch.
1985 G. Naylor Linden Hills 256 True insanity..gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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