forgettings
Losses of recall
Forgettings are instances of failing to remember.
The word appears in literary or reflective contexts where someone catalogs lapses of memory as discrete events: The forgettings accumulated—names, faces, appointments.
It treats forgetfulness not as a general state but as countable occasions.
Temporary failures or expirations
- amnesiaPathological loss of recall
- blanksUnfilled spaces on forms
- gapsUnfilled spaces between
- blackoutsComplete loss of electricity
absent-mindedness · senility · dementia · mental blocks · slips · oversights · memory loss · fading
Willful lack of attention
- inattentionLack of focus
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- heedlessnessFailure to notice danger
unmindfulness · abandonment · dereliction · laxity · slackness · remissness · apathy · indifference
lapses
Temporary failures or expirations
blackouts · absent-mindedness · senility · dementia · mental blocks · slips · oversights · memory loss · fading · erasure
disregard
Willful lack of attention
- inattentionLack of focus
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
heedlessness · unmindfulness · abandonment · dereliction · laxity · slackness · remissness · apathy · indifference · oversight
forgettingsremembrances
Items preserving past moments
recollections · memories · recalls · reminiscences · retentions
forgettingscommemorations
Acts honoring past events
memorializations · remembrances · tributes · celebrations · honoring
- forgetting aboutFailing to remember
- forgiving and forgettingExcusing wrongs, dismissing them
- forgetting linesLosing memorized dialogue
- forgetting curveMemory loss over time
- not forgettingAdditionally mentioning
- Forgetting Sarah MarshallRomantic comedy about moving on