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Definition: Obliviousness |
ObliviousnessNoun1. Total forgetfulness; "he sought the great oblivion of sleep". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "obliviousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonym: ObliviousnessSynonym: oblivion (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Oblivion | Noun: oblivion, obliviousness, lethe; forgetfulness; Adjective: amnesia; obliteration; of, insensibility; to the past. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "obliviousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prirje të harroj (oblivion), pavëmendje (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, oversight, wool gathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نسيان (forgetfulness, limbo, oblivion, omission, slip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | забравяне (oblivion), забрава (forgetfulness, limbo, oblivion, silence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zapomenutí (limbo, oblivion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | oubli (oblivion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vergesslichkeit (forgetfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λησμοσύνη (forgetfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שכחה (amnesia, forgetfulness, oblivion), התעלמות (disappearance, disregard, estrangement, oblivion, overlooking, oversight, skip), הסח הדעת (absentmindedness, distraction, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megfeledkezés, feledékenység (forgetfulness, lightheadedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dimenticàggine (forgetfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 잊기 쉬움. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obliviousnessay забывчивость (forgetfulness, oblivion), забвение (obliteration, oblivion). (various references) zaboravnost. (various references) olvido (absentmindedness, forgetfulness, oblivion, omission). (various references) การลืมเลือน. (various references) unutkanlık (amnesia, forgetfulness, Lethe). (various references) неуважність (absence, absentmindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, negligence, oscitancy, oscitation, wool gathering), забуття (condonation, effacement, forgetfulness, limbo, neglect, obliteration, oblivion, silence), забутливість (obliviscence), здатність надавати забуття. (various references) tính lãng quên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "obliviousness": obliviousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: biliousness, obviousness. | |
-3 letters: visionless. | |
-4 letters: evulsions, lousiness, oblivions, oblivious, obsession. | |
-5 letters: blousons, business, elisions, elusions, evulsion, isolines, lionises, nubilose, oblivion, oiliness, olivines, soubises, sublines, subsoils, unlooses, violones. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: obliviousnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 62 6C 69 76 69 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73 |
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