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Forgetting

//fəˈɡɛtɪŋ// noun, verb

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

    "Jelliffe […] asks again and again […] how it was possible for an illness which had been described unmistakably innumerable times to be 'forgotten' anew by each generation. Such forgettings are as dangerous as they are mysterious, for they give us an unwarranted sense of security."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of forget form-of, gerund, participle, present

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