OBLIVION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of oblivion in English

(Definition of oblivion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of oblivion from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of oblivion

oblivion
Nevertheless, although textual insistence that the installation's time is independent of the 'oblivion' beyond becomes clear, the role of the whisper cannot be purely linguistic.
Further more, rescuing previous texts from oblivion was common practice among many nineteenth-century naturalists.
However, other correspondents were only rescued from oblivion when some expedition members credited their local contribution to the process of knowledge acquisition.
The colony was forgotten by their former countrymen and consigned to oblivion by cultural baggage carried from a different environment.
Brilliantly put; but why this oblivion to the formal articulation?
Whatever his qualities, this record has largely condemned him to historiographical oblivion.
In order to rescue this observation from oblivion we hereby present it for the benefit of physicians.
Within the world of theatre, the content or idea of nothing is what has been repressed, that which has been consigned to oblivion, avoided, or bypassed in its own history.
Given the understandable tendency of scholars to rely heavily on official sources, the paucity of official documents on the movements of merchants is in itself a powerful factor of oblivion.
There is a serious and legitimate concern that, as the normalisation of the situation advances, we tend to consign to oblivion even such things that cannot be forgotten.
Next, the discovery of writing, which "unites places and times," meant that genius, until then at the mercy of local oblivion, could reach a global audience and therefore achieve immortality.
A metaphysics of metamorphosis and oblivion.
Outside of this - the oblivion of nothing.
If they do not do so, we may simply follow the example of many great empires of the past and stagger forward into oblivion.
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Is that extraordinary, prolonged political and cultural effort destined to end up in oblivion?
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Translations of oblivion

in Chinese (Traditional)
無記憶, 被遺忘,被忘卻, 湮沒…
in Chinese (Simplified)
无记忆, 被遗忘,被忘却, 湮没…
in Spanish
olvido, inconsciencia…
in Portuguese
esquecimento…
in more languages
in Japanese
in Turkish
in Catalan
in Arabic
in Polish
in Korean
in Italian
in Russian
忘却, 無意識状態…
unutulma, unutulup gitme, tarihe karışma…
oblit, inconsciència…
نِسيان…
niepamięć, zapomnienie, nieprzytomność…
의식하지 못하는 상태, 망각…
oblio, incoscienza…
забвение, бессознательное состояние…
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