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forgetness

noun

Etymology

Possibly continuing Middle English forgetenes (“forgetfulness”); or recreated in modern times from forget + -ness, modelled after forgiveness. Compare West Frisian ferjitnis (“forgetfulness”), Dutch vergetenis (“forgetfulness”).

  1. inherited from forgetenes

Definitions

  1. The act of forgetting, or any property associated with it

    The act of forgetting, or any property associated with it; oblivion; forgetfulness; obliviousness.

    • Oh, how many of us must charge our hearts to-day with forgetness!
    • […] but to think of him foundling a nelliza the second, also cliptbuss (the best was still there if the torso was gone) where he did and when he did, retriever to the last — escapes my forgetness now was it dust-covered, […]
    • While working they manage to reach a level of what Goleman (1995) calls 'flow', which is a state of 'self-forgetness' as a result of being engrossed in the task at hand.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forgetness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA