forgetness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of forgetting, or any property associated with it; oblivion; forgetfulness; obliviousness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "If you were to visit a Christian church, you would hear a lot about forgiveness: […]. Instead of forgiveness, it is useful to strive for forgetness, and simply leave behind the pain of the past."
- "[...]: he comes to understand God's forgiveness in terms of forgetness, and that recognition brings with it a new understanding of the Christian life of faith as entailing not merely belief but praxis or the expressing of love in community."
- "We have not found that such forgetness happened to any of the prophets especially the master and the last of them (peace be upon them)."
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”).