What's the difference between forgetfulness and remembrance?

Forgetfulness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
  • (n.) Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
  • (n.) Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
  • (2) When tested 4 weeks later, they showed significant forgetting.
  • (3) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.
  • (4) All freedom-loving people will miss him, but we will never forget his sacrifice and his achievements."
  • (5) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
  • (6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
  • (7) "We have vowed to never forget and we never will," he said.
  • (8) Seethetree Kingley Vale, Sussex Forget the colours of autumn; this place is sombre in colour and atmosphere but you will be walking among probably the oldest living organisms in Britain.
  • (9) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
  • (10) Also, if you want to press vinyl, forget it – leading up to this day all of the pressing plants are booked.
  • (11) This was generally mild and always fully reversible and consisted mainly of forgetfulness, occasionally hallucinations, nightmares and somnolence.
  • (12) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
  • (13) Forget about the infants' milk, only lucky children can get it.
  • (14) Effectiveness of the neuropharmacological actions improving the memory forgotten trace retrieval is shown to depend upon the duration of the spontaneous forgetting process.
  • (15) The first symptom of the younger brother (case 2) was also forgetfulness at 45 years old, then severe dementia was advanced, at last he died of pneumonia at age 53 old.
  • (16) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
  • (17) Ultimately, we are fallible and forgetful, so the best way to solve the problem is as always choice-editing or design this inconvenience out.
  • (18) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
  • (19) Deliberate forgetting Wouldn't it be useful if our minds had their own refuse collection service – a way of selectively depositing those memories we no longer require while keeping hold of those that we do?
  • (20) Obama acknowledged he had read an article "in the news just the other day wondering has Washington missed its opportunity, because as time goes on after Newtown, somehow people start moving on and forgetting" This was not the case, he said.

Remembrance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
  • (n.) The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
  • (n.) Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
  • (n.) That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
  • (n.) Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni//on; instruction.
  • (n.) Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar scenes of remembrance played out across the country – in a show of emotion not seen since the 1937 funeral of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the nation was founded in 1918.
  • (2) An ITV news presenter who has been subject to racist and sexist abuse for her decision not to wear a Remembrance Day poppy said she made her decision in order to be "neutral and impartial on-screen".
  • (3) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
  • (4) Sixteen Anglican chaplains are understood to be spending Remembrance Sunday on active service in Helmand, Afghanistan.
  • (5) He has appointed Tory MP Andrew Murrison, a former Royal Navy medical officer, as his special representative for the remembrance.
  • (6) Sunday's remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall did not offer much in the way of opportunities for error.
  • (7) This sporting occasion did begin in remembrance of one of the most remarkable campaigns for justice, against a scandalous police cover-up, but it ended largely in rancour, and complaints about a referee, Mark Halsey.
  • (8) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
  • (9) "This is a test; we have to confront it, we have to resist, we have to fight," he told a remembrance ceremony for former French prime minister Michel Debré in Amboise, central France .
  • (10) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
  • (11) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
  • (12) It has been found that chlorpromazine tends to lessen the incidental memory in extent and increase the number of allomnesias or instances of inaccurate remembrance, whereas amphetamine has the effects of increasing the extent of the incidental memory and reducing the number of allomnesias.
  • (13) On the third anniversary last year, 19 mothers of the island’s dead wrote to Conservative prime minister Erna Solberg asking for Utøya to stay closed, and to remain as a place of remembrance.
  • (14) It is the culmination of a long and painful attempt to find a balance between politics and grief, courage and remembrance, youth and parenthood, moving on and looking back.
  • (15) The Glasgow Games will be followed immediately by the main, official first world war centenary remembrance service at Glasgow Cathedral – a commemoration seen by pro-unity campaigners as evidence of the UK's powerful shared history.
  • (16) Samira Ahmed (@SamiraAhmedUK) Hundreds complain about #Marr 's Le Pen interview on Remembrance Sunday.
  • (17) Then, as customary, our minister issued a prayer, ending in a moment of silent remembrance.
  • (18) St James's Palace said of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge: "The Duke's strong view is the poppy is a universal symbol of remembrance, which has no political, religious or commercial connotations."
  • (19) Accompanied by the Salamanca band of the Rifles, the parade will march from the cathedral to Liberation Monument for the remembrance service.
  • (20) Malcolm Turnbull asks for investigation into minister Stuart Robert's China trip Read more A media release issued by China MinMetals Corporation said Robert had extended his congratulations “on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence” and had presented “a medal bestowed to him by Australian prime minister in honour of remembrance and blessing”.