Definition of Forgetting

1. Verb. (present participle of forget) ¹

2. Noun. The mental act by which something is forgotten. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forgetting

1. forget [v] - See also: forget

Medical Definition of Forgetting

1. Being unable to retrieve or recall information that was once registered, learned, and stored in short-or long-term memory. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forgetting

forgetfull
forgetfully
forgetfulness
forgetfulnesses
forgetive
forgetness
forgets
forgettable
forgettably
forgetted
forgetter
forgetters
forgettest
forgetteth
forgettil
forgetting (current term)
forgettingly
forgettings
forgettle
forging
forging ahead
forgings
forgit
forgitty
forgiv'n
forgivable
forgivably
forgive
forgive and forget
forgiveable

Literary usage of Forgetting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"Verbs of remembering and forgetting take either the Accusative or the Genitive of the object: — a. Memini takes the Accusative when it has the literal sense ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Class J 11:509-11 My '16 Importance of forgetting history. New Statesman 10:300-1 D 29 '17 Little laughs in history. HM Allen. Sewanee R 24:363-70 Jl '16 ..."

3. Publications by Scotland Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1854)
"I shall be impatient to hear from you in Dublin, and how you find your friends there, not forgetting the young Dunure. If you find that they retain any ..."

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