Oblivion vs Incogitancy - What's the difference?
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The state of forgetfulness or distraction; fig. confused
The state of being completely forgotten.
A state of permanent unconsciousness existing after death; fig. A state of nonexistence or nothingness
fig. a wasteland; a supernatural realm of waste, like hell ~ I will cast them into oblivion! Close shut the gates of oblivion! He found him in a desert land, in the oblivion, a howling wilderness.
A lack of thought or thinking.
* Glanvill
* 1793 June 9, Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison:
Oblivion is a synonym of incogitancy.
As nouns the difference between oblivion and incogitancy
is that oblivion is the state of forgetfulness or distraction; fig confused while incogitancy is a lack of thought or thinking.As a verb oblivion
is to consign to oblivion; to efface utterly.oblivion
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- 'Tis folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate.
- The motion of my blood no longer keeps time with the tumult of the world. It leads me to seek for happiness in the lap and love of my family, in the society of my neighbors & my books, in the wholesome occupations of my farm & my affairs, in an interest or affection in every bud that opens, in every breath that blows around me, in an entire freedom of rest or motion, of thought or incogitancy , owing account to myself alone of my hours & actions.