forgetfulness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: for=get=ful=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

forgetfulness, n. 

•  The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.  [1913 Webster]
•  Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.  [1913 Webster]

  "A sweet forgetfulness of human care."  [1913 Webster]
•  Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.

Syn. -- Forgetfulnes, Oblivion.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

forgetfulness

n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

THESAURUS

forgetfulness

abandon, careless abandon, carelessness, casualness, cursoriness, disregardfulness, easiness, hastiness, heedlessness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, indifference, insouciance, lack of foresight, laziness, lethe, oblivion, obliviousness, offhandedness, perfunctoriness, recklessness, regardlessness, sprezzatura, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, unaccommodatingness, unheedfulness, unhelpfulness, unmindfulness, unobligingness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unthinkingness, unthoughtfulness

ROGET THESAURUS

forgetfulness

Oblivion

N oblivion, obliviousness, lethe, forgetfulness, amnesia, obliteration of &c, insensibility to the past, short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory, decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory, waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion, amnesty, general pardon, repressed memory, forgotten, unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind, buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion, clean forgotten, gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection, forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean, insensible to the past, heedless, non mi ricordo, the memory failing, the memory deserting one, being at fault, being in fault, To the Future.