Crossword-Solution: OBLIVION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oblivion | n. | The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness. |
| Oblivion | n. | Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “OBLIVION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being disregarded or forgotten | 1 answer |
| state of being forgotten | 1 answer |
| Total forgetfulness | 1 answer |
| The void | 1 answer |
| The state of being unaware of what is happening around one | 1 answer |
| State of being totally forgotten | 1 answer |
| State of being completely forgotten | 1 answer |
| Nowhereness | 1 answer |
| Forgotten place | 1 answer |
| FORGOTTEN state | 1 answer |
| Condition of being forgotten | 1 answer |
| paramnesia | 2 answers |
| fugue | 2 answers |
| lethe | 2 answers |
| AMNESIA | 4 answers |
| forgetfulness | 8 answers |
| Nonexistence. | 11 answers |
| limbo | 11 answers |
| nirvana | 11 answers |
| place of the dead | 11 answers |
| extinction | 16 answers |
| nothingness | 22 answers |
| nullity | 29 answers |
| Transition | 31 answers |
| CROSSING ___ | 43 answers |
| Life after death? | 45 answers |
| nonbeing | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OBLIVION (5)
Farr off from these a slow and silent stream, _Lethe_ the River of Oblivion roules Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
THE GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP-SHEARERS Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
But then, what reams of other manuscripts—filled, not with the dulness of official formalities, but with the thought of inventive brains and the rich effusion of deep hearts—had gone equally to oblivion; and that, moreover, without serving a purpose in their day, as these heaped-up papers had, and—saddest of all—without purchasing for their writers the comfortable livelihood which the clerks of the Custom-House had gained by these worthless scratchings of the pen.
That drop was falling when the Pyramids were new; when Troy fell; when the foundations of Rome were laid; when Christ was crucified; when the Conqueror created the British empire; when Columbus sailed; when the massacre at Lexington was “news.” It is falling now; it will still be falling when all these things shall have sunk down the afternoon of history, and the twilight of tradition, and been swallowed up in the thick night of oblivion.
The shadows of the tall furniture grow deeper, and at first become more definite; then, spreading wider, they lose their distinctness of outline in the dark gray tide of oblivion, as it were, that creeps slowly over the various objects, and the one human figure sitting in the midst of them.
Quotes with OBLIVION (3)
I'm in love with you," he said quietly." Augustus," I said." I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I kn…
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance." The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky. She loved me, sometimes I loved her. How could I not have loved her large, still eyes? I can write the saddest…
I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2008–2018).