2020-11-17
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด O - oblivious & forgetful
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง oblivious = ‘uh-BLIV-ee-uhs’
ออกเสียง forgetful = ‘’fer-GET-fuhl’
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
How to Use Oblivious in a Sentence:
does it go with 'of' or 'to'?
Oblivious usually has to do with
not being conscious or aware of someone or something.
When used with this meaning,
it can be followed by either to or of:
The cat had crept in silently, and we were oblivious to its presence in the room.
There was no chance that anyone could be oblivious of the dog, though;
it greeted everyone in the room with frisky leaps.
Oblivious can also have to do with forgetfulness,
and when it's used this way, it is often followedby of (but not to):
The child had brought in a snake she'd discovered in the garden, oblivious of the promise she'd made to leave all found creatures outside.
Whatever meaning of oblivious you chooseto use,
the noun that correlates with this adjective is obliviousness:
Our obliviousness to the cat's presence in the room was quickly corrected by the dog's discovery of the cat under the chair.
The noun oblivion is related to both, of course,
but it is not the noun form of oblivious.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Word History
Have We Become Oblivious of 'Oblivious'?
Most speakers of English have forgotten the original meaning of 'oblivious.' Perhaps that's appropriate.
One of the eternal truths of any living languageis that
it will constantly add new words and new meanings to existing words.
As the language grows it will also slough off old words and meanings. Sometimes this discarding will occur asthe result of a simple mistake.
The word fruition, for instance, rarely carries
its original meaning of “the pleasurable use or possession of something”;
once people began to mistakenly use the word to refer to bearing fruit,
in the 19th century, the initial sense became lessfrequently employed.
Other words will change meaning through a more gradual process,
one in which the earlier meanings are slowlyforgotten.
Sometimes this gradual oblivion of a word’s earlier meaning can feel almost poetic, as is the case with oblivious.
'Oblivious' originally meant "characterized by forgetfulness."
Perhaps it's appropriate that most people are oblivious of this fact.
The first meaning of oblivious was “characterized by forgetfulness.”
This word entered our language in the 15th century, coming from the Latin oblivisci (“to forget”), a root it shareswith oblivion.
The two most common senses of oblivion
(“the fact or condition of not remembering” and
“the condition or state of being forgotten or unknown”)
are that word’s oldest ones;
it is unclear why these old uses of oblivion have remained
while the initial sense of oblivious is something
that we have become, well, oblivious of.
The sense of oblivious meaning
“lacking active conscious knowledge or awareness”
began to be used in the middle of the 19th century.
Although the "forgetful" sense may still be found in writing,
it is far less commonly encountered today than the sense meaning "unaware."
She left us singing in the field, oblivious to all but the ache of our own bent backs. —Rita Dove, Persephone Abducted (from Mother Love) 1995
Such change in a language is natural, and we would never suggest that this progression should be reversed.
However, we can point out to you that this early meaning of oblivious is not the only one of its ilk which appears to be departing from our collective lexical memory.
There are a number of obli- words which we enter in our Unabridged Dictionary, and
they are listed below,
in order that you might savor them as they continue their journey towards obsolescence.
Oblivescence - an act or the process of forgetting
Society is not quite so terrible in its vengeance, but it is not the less certain to be avenged, or less restricted in its modes of execution. We may sum up its methods of vengeance under two heads—inertia and oblivescence. —The Illustrated Review (London, England), Jul. 1871
Oblivial - causing oblivion
O! my Maria! when you shall know the worst, what more shall I have to dread?———One Act oblivial, sweeps the Score for ever.
—Adolphus Bannac, The Apparition; or, Female Cavalier, 1756
Obliviate – to forget
….but in earnest I think, if the Gospel of God had no better lovers than such as would willingly obliviate all humane excellencies, 'twould be as slenderly loved, as Mr: B. loves Astrology….
—John Gadbury, Animal Cornutum, 1654.
Oblivionize - to relegate to oblivion
I will obliuionize my loue to the welch widdowe.
—Thomas Dekker, The Pleasant Comodie of Patient Grisill, 1603
Collins English Dictionary
obˈliviously adv
obˈliviousness n
Usage:
It was formerly considered incorrect
to use oblivious to mean unaware,
but this use is now acceptable
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
oblivious & forgetful
Oblivious means
“unaware,” “unmindful,”
“lacking memory of something.”
Forgetful implies a faulty memory
or a tendency not to remember.
Oblivious stresses
unawareness, unresponsiveness,
and inattentiveness.
“Jackie was totally oblivious of her surrounding,”
“Because I was forgetful, I left the percolator plugged in all afternoon.”
Oblivious has been broadened in meaning
to include unconsciousness:
“In a deep coma, Betsy was oblivious to the world.”
(Oblivious may be followed by to or of.)
In most instant, forgetful ispreferable,
because more readily understandable,
to oblivious in the senses of
“bemused,” “abstracted,” “unaware,”
and even “absent-minded.”
