An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
FORGETFULNESS
forgetfulness
(noun) tendency to forget
forgetfulness
(noun) unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember; “his forgetfulness increased as he grew older”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
forgetfulness (usually uncountable, plural forgetfulnesses)
The quality of being forgetful; proneness to let slip from the mind.
Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention.
Source: Wiktionary
For*get"ful*ness, n.
1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope.
3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
Syn.
– Forgetfulnes, Oblivion. Forgetfulness is Anglo-Saxon, and oblivion is Latin. The former commonly has reference to persons, and marks a state of mind, and marks a state of mind; the latter commonly has reference to things, and indicates a condition into which they are sunk. We blame a man for his forgetfulness; we speak of some old custom as buried in oblivion. But this discrimination is not strictly adhered to.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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