oblivion
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8.1
- noun
- /əˈblɪviən/
:
olvido
- Or if there's nothing after death, if there's just oblivion, well, I won't be around to worry about it.
- fade into oblivion
- fall into oblivion
- pass into oblivion
He went from oblivion to oblivious to superstar.
- He went from oblivion to oblivious to superstar.
- I was always searching for oblivion, you know, just the nothingness, you know.
- You cross the event horizon and take it into the depths of oblivion.
- And then after that fade into oblivion.
- Just staring at them, just staring into oblivion.
- He's like, you've got to come on my show and then just went off into the oblivion.
- So I shared videos numerous times and they just vanish into oblivion.
- And knowing that you're going to try to bump me into oblivion, I got to really be strategical about this.
- And since I've stopped baking, the wrinkles under my eyes have literally faded into oblivion.
- And he said we've split tested this into oblivion.
- They delayed into oblivion and getting Imperial Guard flashbacks.
- And so I literally took verbatim what he said and mocked it into oblivion, and it went viral.
- Just, you know, kill them, blow them into oblivion.
- It's an empty repose and an oblivion.
Examples
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After many years, the story of the hero was lost to oblivion.
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Death deals release and oblivion.
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I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion.
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Invite him, let him say his piece about South Africa... then let him slip into oblivion.
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For the mass of mankind, absolute oblivion, like death, is sure.
Academic text (2000) -
Their leaders have already sunk into oblivion, and the memory of those great days has faded.
Academic text (1993) -
Leafing through American social history is to remember the oblivion of women's stories in the making of Indonesian history.
Academic text (2000) -
The march into oblivion was visible in the inaugural electoral process in post-Communist BH.
Academic text (1993) -
Among the adventives on this list that have faded into oblivion are two crop-mimicking weeds.
Academic text (1991) -
The once-famous artist faded into oblivion as newer talents emerged.
Synonyms
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7.4
A time when a person or thing is unknown and not noticed
A state when no one remembers a person or thing
A gradual loss of memories that makes you forget the past
Antonyms
How Forgotten
Surface Forms
Morphology
oblivion = obliv + ion
The morpheme 'obliv' is not a standalone English word and the meaning of 'oblivion' (being forgotten) is not transparently derived by an average learner from its parts.
Etymology
Oblivion comes from the Latin oblivio, from the verb oblivisci meaning 'to forget'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture a place where lost memories go, and the same root gives us oblivious, so oblivion means the state of being completely forgotten.