oblivion 
ob·livi·on (ə bliv′ē ən)
oblivion
n.
Blankness
forgetfulness, unmindfulness, obliviousness, Lethe, insensibleness, waters of oblivion, amnesia; see also carelessness, indifference 1.Antonyms
memory*, remembrance, recollection. Nothingness
nonexistence, Nirvana, obscurity, nullity, nihility, void, limbo; see also emptiness, nothing.Antonyms
existence*, fullness, being.
Preposition: of
- sleep: By Keith Wheatley, Sunday Times In the shuttered calm of a Helsinki villa, Harry Llewellyn fought for the oblivion of sleep.
- past: So we treat our traditions - so we hail the demand of Ireland for what I call a blessed oblivion of the past.
Preposition: as
- result: What worries me more is the prospect of our slang and usage falling into oblivion as a direct result of neglect.
Converse of object
- seek: Anyway, the sheep, like Dyer, look to be seeking oblivion.
- face: We were anchored at the foot of the division facing oblivion.
- avoid: Only recently, most of the pages at the Voices Forum website had to be " mended " to avoid search engine oblivion!
- bless: At last, overwhelmed by the agony, she passed into the blessed oblivion of unconsciousness.
- bring: Imagine my relief as the anesthetic finally brought merciful oblivion.
- stare: Remember six months ago when the club was staring oblivion in the face?
Adjective modifier
- mere: The sixth age shifts and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
- eternal: Let the rest of her words and actions be buried in eternal oblivion.
- near: In just three years we have gone from near oblivion to delirium.
- total: Here he lived to a ripe old age suffering the classic fate of a surviving unsuccessful revolutionary - almost total oblivion.
- political: Could the Tories have avoided political oblivion a decade ago?
- non-league: Booting old-fashioned footie games into non-league oblivion, Mr Soccer Robot Football is an exclusive Firebox signing, destined to become a footballing legend.
Preposition: in
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion.
I have but one request to make at my departure from this world, it isöthe charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dare now vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justicetomycharacter.Whenmycountry takesher place among thenations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
He had often noticed that six months'oblivion amounts to newspaper death, and that resurrection is rare. Nothing is easier, if a manwants it, thanrest, profound as the grave.
Browse dictionary entries near oblivion
- ‹ obliterated
- ‹ obliterate
- ‹ obliquity
- ‹ obliquely
- ‹ oblique angle
- ‹ oblique
- ‹ obligor
- ‹ obligingly
- ‹ obliging
- ‹ obligee
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