Crossword clues for oblivion
oblivion
- Forgetfulness leads to our best violin being shattered
- Ignorance of Bach's first violin playing
- Total forgetfulness - limbo
- Forgotten state
- Unconsciousness — nothingness
- Total forgetfulness
- The void
- State of being totally forgotten
- Condition of being forgotten
- 2013 sci-fi film starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman
- Nowhereness
- The state of being disregarded or forgotten
- Total forgetfulness — limbo
- Lethe
- Clothing for dance contests in which tango replaces foxtrot
- Old British hero housed six in blackout
- Old boy mostly existing with love in limbo
- Senselessness of outside broadcast; 6 eaten by 25
- Former 5 almost angry about lack of fame
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oblivion \Ob*liv"i*on\, n. [L. oblivio, akin to oblivisci to forget: cf. OF. oblivion.]
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The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.
Second childishness and mere oblivion.
--Shak.Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
--DrydenThe origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion.
--W. Irving. -
Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.
--Sir J. Davies.Syn: See Forgetfulness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "state or fact of forgetting," from Old French oblivion (13c.) and directly from Latin oblivionem (nominative oblivio) "forgetfulness; a being forgotten," from oblivisci (past participle oblitus) "forget," originally "even out, smooth over, efface," from ob "over" (see ob-) + root of levis "smooth," from PIE *lei-w-, from root *(s)lei- "slime, slimy, sticky" (see slime (n.)). Meaning "state of being forgotten" is early 15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of forgetfulness or distraction; fig. confused 2 The state of being completely forgotten. 3 A state of permanent unconsciousness existing after death; A state of nonexistence or nothingness 4 (context figuratively English) a wasteland; a supernatural realm of waste, like hell vb. (cx transitive English) To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.
WordNet
n. the state of being disregarded or forgotten [syn: limbo]
total forgetfulness; "he sought the great oblivion of sleep" [syn: obliviousness]
Wikipedia
Oblivion may refer to:
Oblivion is Orphanage's first album, released in March 1995 by DSFA Records. The CD features 10 tracks that have been recorded, mixed and mastered at Tape Productions Studio in Raamsdonkveer.
Oblivion is a steel roller coaster located at Alton Towers in England. The ride opened as the world's first dive coaster on 14 March 1998, amidst a large publicity campaign. It was the second in a long line of 'Secret Weapon (SW4)' rollercoasters to have opened at Alton Towers. The ride has a height restriction of . With a maximum speed of 68 mph, it is the third fastest roller coaster in the UK, behind Stealth at Thorpe Park and the Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
Oblivion was a punk rock group from the Chicago area. The band was composed of Pete Kourim on bass guitar and lead vocals, Scott Ozark on guitar and back-up vocals, and Brian Czarnik on drums.
Oblivion is an original novel by Dave Stone featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Oblivion is a character in the Marvel Comics universe. Its first appearance was in Iceman #3 and it was created by J. M. DeMatteis and Alan Kupperberg. Oblivion is a cosmic entity and another aspect of Death. Oblivion represents non-existence and is a counterforce to the expanding universe.
"Oblivion" is a song by the Cebuano rock band Hastang. The song's lyrics was written by Julie Ann Ladanan (née Redoble), with the melody and music written by lead singer Tessa Manto and bass player Guile Canencia. The musical arrangement of the song is credited to Hastang.
Oblivion is an album by the rock group Utopia, released in 1984.
Oblivion is the second single from Crack the Skye by American progressive metal band Mastodon. It is their second-most successful single and song since the release of their full length Crack the Skye, reaching #30 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; however, it has since been surpassed by " Curl of the Burl," which peaked at #16. It is the opening track on the band's live album Live At The Aragon.
Oblivion is a 1994 American western- science fiction dark comedy film directed by Sam Irvin and written by Peter David. It stars Richard Joseph Paul, Andrew Divoff, George Takei, Julie Newmar, Musetta Vander, Isaac Hayes and Meg Foster. It was followed by a sequel, Oblivion 2: Backlash.
Oblivion is an American technical death metal band from the Bay Area formed in 2007. They have released one album, one demo and several music videos. Members of Oblivion have previously performed in several notable metal bands such as Antagony, All Shall Perish, Hacksaw to the Throat, Alchemicon, Feast and Fractals. Another notable aspect of Oblivion is the fact that one member has a doctorate degree in music and is a university professor, while another has a doctorate in mathematics. Currently, the band is signed to Unique Leader and will release multiple albums through the label. A reissue of their debut album, "Called to Rise", will be released on October 15, 2013.
Oblivion is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name. The film was co-written, produced and directed by Kosinski. It stars Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, and Olga Kurylenko. The film was released in the U.S. on April 19, 2013. According to Kosinski, Oblivion pays homage to science fiction films of the 1970s.
Oblivion received mixed reviews. The acting, especially Cruise's performance, the originality, the visual style and effects were praised, while reception of the plot was mixed. Reviewers criticized the film's incorporation of elements from other sci-fi films and what Rotten Tomatoes called a "thinly scripted" story. However, it was a commercial success, grossing more than $286 million worldwide against a $120 million budget.
Oblivion is the first duet album by the Macedonian singer Kaliopi with Edin Karamazov, recorded and released in 2009.
"Oblivion" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Grimes from her third studio album, Visions (2012). It was released as a promotional single in 2012 by 4AD. The song is one of Grimes' most successful releases so far and was ranked at number 38 on Australian alternative music station Triple J's 2012 Hottest 100 countdown. It was named the best song of 2012 on Pitchfork, which in 2014 also named it the best song of the decade as of August 2014. It placed at number 229 on NME magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
"Oblivion" is a single by French band M83 featuring lead vocals from Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfør. It was released as part of the film soundtrack album Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to accompany the film of the same name. It was composed by Anthony Gonzalez.
Oblivion is the third album by London indie pop band Biff Bang Pow! released in 1987.
Oblivion is the final book in The Power of Five series. It marks a change in the narrative, being set in the future - 2018 is the affirmed setting. It is ten years on from the other four books in the series and the world is in dark times. The Old Ones have started their war and the Five have to find each other again.
This book was started in 2009 and was finished in 2012. This book is unique because it isn't a rewrite of a previous Pentagram novel.
"Oblivion" is a song by British band Bastille from their 2013 album Bad Blood. It was released digitally in the UK on 5 September 2014 as the eighth overall and final single from the album. A limited edition 7-inch vinyl edition of the single, featuring the previously unreleased track " bad_news" as the B-side, was also released on 8 September.
The song was featured on an episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries in 2012.
Usage examples of "oblivion".
It is another key discovery that the old seers made, but in their aberration they relegated it to oblivion until it was rescued by the new seers.
Oblivion was close enough within his reach as he sat there, the aquarium on his lap.
Back in the auberge, I had imagined many possible derangements of the Pliocene world, fierce beasts, inhospitable terrain, exploitation of newcomers by the earlier arrivals among the time-farers, even a malfunction of the translational field that would cast the poor travelers into oblivion.
As he handed his briefcase the phone, the bureaucrat could hear the last of his agent unraveling itself back into oblivion.
Elto caught a few words about a sleeping princess, a hidden and magical city, a lost hero from the Butlerian Jihad who would slumber in oblivion until he rose again to save the Imperium.
Park of Extinct Animals was breached and many of the inner enclosures were opened, releasing into the wilderness nearly the entire extraordinary collection of carefully cloned beasts of yesteryear: moas, quaggas, giant ground sloths, dodos, passenger pigeons, aurochs, oryxes, saber-toothed cats, great auks, cahows and many another lost species that had been called back from oblivion by the most painstaking manipulation of fossil genetic material.
Every player has cheated death, surviving a killing dose of venom to balance on the edge of oblivion, returning with the magic puntas possess.
She put on her clothes in seeming oblivion that I was a man, but without shewing any sights that could be called indecent.
Beatrice did not need any bidding and after Frans had covered her with a rug, she allowed herself bar to sink into the strange silence that preluded the eird feelings which led to oblivion.
Likely they would slowly descend in a spiral orbit until they reached the singularity and oblivion, but here, near the top of the ergosphere, there was still a chance.
Soldier Handler dropped him five times in four rounds, and then stopped a right-hander that knocked him clear out of the ring and into fistic oblivion.
One hand raised, Judge Lawless was about to fling it sideward as a signal for the firing squad to blast Fleech into oblivion.
And when the first frump blast exploded a glass counter full of jewelry to oblivion, the place became a madhouse of screaming, writhing insanity.
Leopold and Loeb, Capone and Dillinger, Gacy and Gein, Speck and Bundy, and the rest of the parolees from oblivion strolled away, a swaggering gait, leaving the cornfield, hitting the dark road that passed outside the farm, a short walk that would take them into the heart of a town called Plum Creek.
Hess, Herder, Paulus, Schleiermacher, Hase, Neander, Ebrard, Weisse, Ewald, Keim, and Renan must be content to lie in oblivion.