oblivion

Speech parts

1. oblivion - Noun

2. oblivion - Verb

Meaning

The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

limbo obliviousness nirvana lethe amnesty death nonexistence extinction darkness void nowhere Siberia neglect disappearance coma
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Antonyms

chronicle faro lantern fame remembrance beacon
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Hypernyms

obscurity forgetfulness

Phrases with the word

consign to oblivion in oblivion period of oblivion eternal oblivion existential oblivion be consigned to oblivion

Examples

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. George Steiner

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Fernand Braudel

Fame is a vapor popularity an accident the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Mark Twain

I am the family face Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. Thomas Hardy

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. William Wordsworth

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion. Augusto Pinochet

Close letter words and terms

obliviality obliviate obliviation oblivionate oblivionize oblivious