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forgetfulness
has definitions from the field of psychology
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[ noun ] (psychology) tendency to forget
Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)The degree of circumstance , the ratio of memory to forgetfulness , determines whether a dream will be a recognized , fulfilled prevision , or the vaguely , effective source of the weird deja_vu feeling . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)There are , he thought , so few true means of forgetfulness in this life that why should he shun the medicine even when the medicine seemed , as it did , a_little crude ? (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)Maybe one could be startled into forgetfulness . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (psychology) unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember
Examples "his forgetfulness increased as he grew older" Related terms |
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