n
An approach to test-taking in which information is memorized for the test, then forgotten afterwards.
n
(figuratively) Forgetfulness.
n
Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
adj
Hard to remember, often intentionally so.
v
(intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
n
(psychology) Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.
n
Synonym of catastrophic interference
n
A phenomenon whereby experienced speakers of some East Asian languages forget how to write Chinese characters previously well known to them.
adv
In a disappearing fashion.
n
(rare, nonstandard) The act of forgetting, or any property associated with it; oblivion; forgetfulness; obliviousness.
n
(rare) The act of forgetting.
n
one who forgets, fails to remember something
n
(humorous) A poor memory that is inclined to forget things.
adj
(UK dialectal) Forgetful.
n
(psychology) An elevated level of memory recall.
adj
(loosely) Whose origins have been forgotten; immemorial.
n
(medicine) The inability to mentally recall or “revisualize” images.
n
(formal, uncommon) A slip of memory; an instance of forgetting.
n
Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
n
(formal, rare) An obsession with recalling a specific word that has been forgotten.
n
A figurative place to which lost or forgotten information is sent, usually deliberately; nowhere.
n
(colloquial) A very poor memory.
n
(colloquial, humorous) Forgetfulness in a pregnant woman or mother.
adj
Bringing welcome forgetfulness or relief.
n
(formal) forgetting; state of being forgotten
adj
(formal) forgetful; forgetting
n
(nonce word) Liability to be forgotten.
n
(obsolete) Forgetfulness.
n
An inability to remember the meaning of common words
n
(psychology) Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.
n
(US politics, of Mitt Romney) A propensity to claim to have forgotten, or act like one has forgotten, one's past deeds and political positions.
n
(humorous) A brief interval of forgetfulness or inattention.
n
Lack of remembrance; forgetfulness.
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