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n. - Tendency to not remember things; Unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember.

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Usage examples (39)
  • His forgetfulness increased as he grew older
  • Only that slow over - growing of life, which we call forgetfulness, could do that.
  • This kind of forgetfulness is one of the common signs evident in the earliest stages of the disease.
  • Any failure in memory, except the normal lapses which we call forgetfulness, is included under this term.
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