forgottenness

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noun

The quality or state of being forgotten

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounforgottenness (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe quality or state of being forgotten

    Abandonment of being is the ground of the forgottenness of being.

    1938, Parvis Evad, Kenneth Maly, “Echo”, in Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning, translation of original by Martin Heidegger, published 1999, →ISBN, page 80

Origin

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