| 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: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
| Main Entry: | absent-mindedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preoccupation |
Synonyms: |
absorption, abstraction, distraction, dreaminess, forgetfulness, heedlessness, inattention |
| Main Entry: | neglect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure, default |
Synonyms: |
carelessness, chaos, delay, delinquency, dereliction, dilapidation, forgetfulness, lapse, laxity, laxness, limbo, neglectfulness, negligence, omission, oversight, pretermission, remissness, slackness, slovenliness |
Antonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, completion, finish, success |
| Main Entry: | negligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carelessness |
Synonyms: |
disregard, failure, forgetfulness, heedlessness, inattention, inattentiveness, laxity, laxness, neglect, neglectfulness, oversight, thoughtlessness, unpreparedness |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | omission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something forgotten or excluded |
Synonyms: |
blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm, cutting out, default, disregard, disregardance, elimination, elision, excluding, exclusion, failing, failure, forgetfulness, gap, hiatus, ignoring, inadvertence, inadvertency, lack, lacuna, lapse, leaving out, missing, neglect, noninclusion, overlook, overlooking, oversight, passing over, preclusion, preterition, pretermission, prohibition, repudiation, skip, slighting, slip, withholding |
Antonyms: |
addition, inclusion, insertion, remembrance |
| Main Entry: | laxness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | negligence |
Synonyms: |
disregard, failure, forgetfulness, heedlessness, inattention, inattentiveness, laxity, neglect, neglectfulness, oversight, remissness, slackness, thoughtlessness, unpreparedness |
| Main Entry: | obliviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | escape |
Synonyms: |
Lethe, abeyance, amnesia, carelessness, disregard, forgetfulness, inadvertence, indifference, insensibility, insensibleness, neglect, nirvana*, oblivion, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, unmindfulness |
| Main Entry: | remissness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | negligence |
Synonyms: |
disregard, failure, forgetfulness, heedlessness, inattention, inattentiveness, laxity, laxness, neglect, neglectfulness, oversight, slackness, thoughtlessness, unpreparedness |