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Adamant vs Forgetting - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between adamant and forgetting

is that adamant is an imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness while forgetting is the mental act by which something is forgotten.

As an adjective adamant

is firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.

As a verb forgetting is

present participle of lang=en.

adamant

English

(wikipedia adamant)

Alternative forms

* adamaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1582 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=gvbik25DcCgC&pg=PT144 , original= , chapter= 8 , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= G. Flinton , location= , editor= , volume= , page= , passage= This then is and alwayes hath ben the fashion of Worldlinges, & reprobate persons, to harden their hartes as an adamant stone, against anye thinge that shalbe tolde the for amendement of their lives, and for the savinge of their soules. }}
  • An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
  • * 1956 , , The City and the Stars , p 34
    • Unprotected matter, however adamant , would have been ground to dust ages ago.
  • A magnet; a lodestone.
  • * 1594–96 , :
    • You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant :
    But yet you draw not iron, for all my heart
    Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw,
    And I shall have no power to follow you.

    Derived terms

    * adamance (pos n) * adamantane (pos a) * adamantean (pos a) * adamantine (pos a) * adamantly (pos adv)

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    forgetting

    English

    (wikipedia forgetting)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mental act by which something is forgotten.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • Jelliffe 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.