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unremembering

unremembering

8.1
Not able to think of things that happened before
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌn.rɪˈmɛm.bər.ɪŋ/
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  • He lived an unremembering life, never reflecting on his past achievements.

Examples

  • An unremembering society risks repeating the mistakes of history.

  • The unremembering crowd quickly moved on, leaving the old monument unnoticed.

  • His unremembering of the past surprised everyone.

  • She felt a sense of unremembering as she looked at old photos.

  • Living a life of unremembering, he rarely thought about the decisions he had made in the past.

  • An unremembering society may struggle to learn from its previous errors.

  • She experienced a feeling of unremembering as she tried to recall her childhood memories.

Synonyms

amnesia
vsunremembering
  • Specialized
93 6.7

A loss of memory often after injury, illness, or trauma

is a nontechnical idea of lacking recall without a medical cause
memory loss
vsunremembering
40 3.4

A problem when a person cannot remember information or past experiences

is the general everyday term for the same lack of recall
forgetfulness
vsunremembering
11 3.5

A habit of not remembering things like names or keys

is a single state of lacking recall rather than a repeated tendency

Antonyms

remembering
1 1.0

Thinking about events or experiences from the past

How Forgetful

unremembering
8.1
forgetful
23 2.8
attentive
61 3.0

Surface Forms

unremembering positive

Morphology

unremembering = remembering (transparent) = un + remember + ing

The form is a direct and regular prefixation of 'remembering' with un-, yielding the meaning 'not remembering'.

Etymology

Unremembering combines un- 'not' with remember, so it literally means 'not remembering'. That's why the word is used for people or groups who do not remember things or who have little memory of something.