The state of being disregarded or forgotten.

synoniem: oblivion.

Roget 751: restraint; hindrance etc. 706; coercion etc. (compulsion) 744; cohibition^†, constraint, repression, suppression; discipline, control.    confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation^†, entombment, mancipation^†, durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade.    arrest, arrestation^†; custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency^†.    curb etc. (means of restraint) 752; lettres de cachet [Fr.].    limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly; prohibition etc. 761.    prisoner etc. 754; repressionist^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 752: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell^†, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon^†, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure etc. 232; isolation (exclusion) 893; penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod [Lat.]; calaboose, chauki^†, choky^†, thana^†; workhouse [U.S.].    Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's Bench, Queen's Bench.    bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples^†; vice, vise.    yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord etc. (fastening) 45; cavesson^†, hackamore [U.S.], headstall, jaquima [U.S.], lines, ribbons.    bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade.    drag etc. (hindrance) 706.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 982: hell, bottomless pit, place of torment; habitation of fallen angels; Pandemonium, Abaddon^†, Domdaniel; jahannan^†, sheol^†.    hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies.    purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss.    [Mythological hell] Tartarus, Hades, Avernus [Lat.], Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron^†, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.    Pluto, Rhadamanthus^†, Erebus [Lat.]; Tophet.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: vergetelheid, vergeetachtigheid

An imaginary place for lost or neglected things.

theology In Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals).

Nederlands: limbus, limbo
Pools: otchłań, limbo, limbus