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語源

Inherited from 中期英語 oblivion, from Anglo-Norman oblivion, from Latin oblīviō (“forgetfulness”), from oblīvīscor (“to forget”).

発音

• enPR: əblĭvʹēən, IPA: /əˈblɪviːən/

名詞

oblivion (usually uncountable, plural oblivions)

1. The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.

   He regularly drank himself into oblivion.

   Only the oblivion of sleep can heal the greatest traumas.

2. The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, including through war and destruction. (Figuratively) for an area like hell, a wasteland.

   Due to modern technology, many more people and much more information will not slip into oblivion, contrary to what happened throughout history until now.

   They tried to bomb them into oblivion.

   I will cast them into oblivion!

3. A form of purgatory.
4. (obsolete) Amnesty.

同意語

• forgetness

派生語

関連する語

参考

• obliteration

動詞

oblivion (third-person singular simple present oblivions, present participle oblivioning, simple past and past participle oblivioned)

1. (transitive) To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.

Further reading

• “oblivion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “oblivion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “oblivion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

From Anglo-Norman oblivion, from Latin oblīviō.

発音

• IPA: /ɔbˈliviun/, /ɔbˈliːviun/

名詞

oblivion (uncountable) (Late Middle English)

1. oblivion (state of forgetting completely)
2. oblivion (state of being forgotten)

関連する語

• oblivious

派生した語

• English: oblivion

参照

• “oblī̆viǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.