forgetting

The mental act by which something is forgotten.

Noun

  1. The mental act by which something is forgotten.
    • Jelliffe […] asks again and again […] how it was possible for an illness which had been described unmistakably innumerable times to be 'forgotten' anew by each generation. Such forgettings are as dangerous as they are...
    • This inability to articulate a complete description can be thought of as of a "piece" with human finitude; the limits, deaths, and forgettings, the "off switches" that also comprise the human narrative. - 1997, Richard...

Forms

forgettings

Derived

catastrophic forgetting forgettingly forgettingness unforgetting

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of forget