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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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