Amnesia vs. Oblivion
Amnesia and Oblivion Definitions
Amnesia
Loss of memory, usually resulting from shock, psychological disturbance, brain injury, or illness.
Oblivion
The condition or quality of being completely forgotten
"He knows that everything he writes is consigned to posterity (oblivion's other, seemingly more benign, face)" (Joyce Carol Oates).
Amnesia
(pathology) Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
Oblivion
The act or an instance of forgetting; total forgetfulness
Sought the great oblivion of sleep.
Amnesia
(figurative) Forgetfulness.
A state of cultural amnesia
Oblivion
(Archaic) Official overlooking of offenses; amnesty.
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Amnesia
A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana.
Oblivion
The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.
He regularly drank himself into oblivion.
Only the oblivion of sleep can heal the greatest traumas.
Amnesia
Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.
Oblivion
The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland.
Due to modern technology, many more people and much more information will not slip into oblivion, contrary to what happened throughout history until now.
They tried to bomb them into oblivion.
I will cast them into oblivion!
Amnesia
Partial or total loss of memory;
He has a total blackout for events of the evening
Oblivion
A form of purgatory.
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Oblivion
(obsolete) amnesty.
Oblivion
(transitive) To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.
Oblivion
The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.
Second childishness and mere oblivion.
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion.
Oblivion
Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.
Oblivion
The state of being disregarded or forgotten
Oblivion
Total forgetfulness;
He sought the great oblivion of sleep
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