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nounobliviality (uncountable)
- nonce worduncountableLiability to be forgotten.
His face was one stamped with the quality of obliviality; to see him once was to insure forgetting him at least twice. But at the “Geegee” parties he was made tidy, which he usually was not, and put in prominent places.
1899, E. F. Benson, Mammon and Co.
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obliviality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/obliviality
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“obliviality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/obliviality. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “obliviality,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/obliviality.
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