<noun.cognition> he sought the great oblivion of sleep
Oblivion \Ob*liv"i*on\, n. [L. oblivio, akin to oblivisci to forget: cf. OF. oblivion.] 1. The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.
Second childishness and mere oblivion. --Shak.
Among our crimes oblivion may be set. --Dryden
The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion. --W. Irving.
2. Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion. --Sir J. Davies.
Syn: See {Forgetfulness}.
They fell into oblivion after the 1929 crash.
Cold War functionalism hasn't faded into complete oblivion.
But last week, he rose from oblivion, addressing giant pro-democracy demonstrations in Prague where hundreds of thousands chanted his name.
Through half a century of international oblivion, Lithuania has maintained a diplomatic presence in the United States through a legation headquartered about 15 blocks up the street from the Soviet Embassy.
"At least it's not peeling off into oblivion."
Incumbents have died, stepped down or been defeated and descended into political oblivion.
A chunk of Cold War history is heading into oblivion.
AT THE north end of King's Lynn, the last fishermen's yard in the old fishing quarter, next to the port, has been rescued from oblivion.
In 1291, two Vivaldi brothers, intending to circle Africa, sailed from Genoa past Gibraltar, to oblivion.
It is as unlikely that the labor movement, because of its current travails, will sink into oblivion as it is that American democracy, because of its current scandals, will be supplanted by a dictatorship.
This is a welcome extension of Peter Wright's policy of rescuing important ballets from repertory oblivion.
Suddenly, there are large numbers of black faces where Afrikaans maidens previously held sway; and the new integrated cabin crews demonstrate an obvious rapport, and an oblivion to racial distinction, which is a model for the nation.
Whatever, I got tired staring at it night after night, though I liked the eerie scene of shrouded, ghostly warriors standing silently on platforms that slowly roll them down the road into oblivion.
While more than a million Cubans have fled the island since 1959, the revolution has rescued countless others, mostly peasants and workers, from the social and economic oblivion they endured under the previous system.
Dr David Owen, the man who had promised to break the mould, instead led the SDP into oblivion.
"This looks like being a short-lived wonder which will disappear into justified oblivion," sniped a critic for the Daily Telegraph after the movement's recent London debut.