English-French translations for oblivion

• oubli
  J' ai l' impression que ce pays tombe lentement dans l' oubli. I have the feeling that that country is gradually being relegated to oblivion.
  Premièrement, l'intolérance et l'extrémisme naissent de l'oubli du passé. In the first place, intolerance and extremism come from the oblivion of the past.
  Celles-ci sont bien trop intéressantes pour que nous les laissions sombrer dans l'oubli. They will be too interesting to be left in the cold and powerful hands of oblivion.
• néant
  Ce décalage fait d'ailleurs penser immanquablement aux conversations anodines ou satisfaites de Byzance, des hiérarques de Byzance, tandis que leur monde glissait vers le néant. In the face of this antithesis, I cannot help thinking of Byzantium, of the balsamic and self-satisfied utterances of the Byzantine administrators at a time when their world was sliding into oblivion.
• scotomisation

Definition of oblivion

• The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead
• The state of being completely forgotten, of being reduced to a state of non-existence, extinction, or nothingness, incl. through war and destruction. for an area like hell, a wasteland
• Amnesty
• To consign to oblivion; to efface utterly

Examples

• He regularly drank himself into oblivion.
• Only the oblivion of sleep can heal the greatest traumas.
• Due to modern technology, many more people and much more information will not slip into oblivion, contrary to what happened throughout history until now.
• They tried to bomb them into oblivion.
• I will cast them into oblivion!

Related words

• obligation
• oblige
• obligatory
• goblin
• oblique
• obliquity
• obliging
• obliged
• obliqueness