Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology The river of forgetfulness, one of the five rivers in Hades.
- n. A condition of forgetfulness; oblivion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Death.
- n. In Gr. myth.: The personification of oblivion, a daughter of Eris.
- n. The river of oblivion, one of the streams of Hades, the waters of which possessed the quality of causing those who drank of them to forget their former existence.
- n. A draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
- n. In entomology, a genus of nymphalid butterflies, with one species, L. europa, from the Malay archipelago.
- An obsolete variant of lithe.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Death.
- n. (Class. Myth.) A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.
- n. Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades; the souls of the dead had to drink from it, which made them forget all they had done and suffered when they were alive
Etymologies
- Greek Lēthē, from lēthē, forgetfulness. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Greeks at the time, long before Aristotle, understood what Aletheia was, with heavy influence of what "lethe" was.”
“About as meaningless as the word ‘freedom’ is. lethe Says:”
“These are less confrontational and pose no legal threats lethe”
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“It accounts for concealment (lethe) in unconcealment, which in turn accounts for withholding (epechein) in the epochs.”
“The event of appropriation is in itself an event of expropriation; this word takes up, in a manner commensurate with the event, the early Greek lethe, in the sense of concealment.”
“The link is made explicit in the first seminar where, in his analysis of repression in the Freudian sense, we come across the following observation: 'In every entry of being into its habitation in words, there's a margin of forgetting, a lethe complementary to every aletheia.”
“Meanwhile, Heidegger described lethe as a horizon from which things/beings emerge and to which beings rest.”
“If lethe then appears as a “movement”, it is, in my opinion, because of this Ereignis.”
“It was William Richardson who -- from his unique knowledge of Heidegger and Lacan, and in a direct response to Sallis's essay -- drew this conclusion when he said Heidegger among the Doctors: 'When I hear Heidegger talk about lethe as "older" than the essence of truth, I hear what Lacan means by the real.”
“It seems I drank some lethe water, and forgot where home is," Dor said, embarrassed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lethe’.
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life, death, rebirth
vale of tears, aborning, transmigration, reincarnate, nativity, nascence, metempsychosis, palingenesis, againrising, psychopannychism, thnetopsychism, shuffle off this ... and 104 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labile, lability, labret, lac, laches, lacis, laic, lam?, lar and 496 more...
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forms/acts: mind
illation, inference, spatulamancy, mantic, satori, hierophant, lexicon, hallelujah, perichoresis, ludic, stochastic, aporia and 3 more...
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Don't Forget
Forgetting words & remembrance words.
remember, recall, recollect, disremember, retain, forget, oubliette, mnemonic, mind, to bear in mind, amnesia, lethe and 1 more...
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ancient signs
ouroboros, calypso, la sirene, Medusa, chthonic, aureole, colophon, succubus, peri, homunculus, zephyr, numinous and 56 more...
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dickinsonian
psalteries, enamoring, estates, whim, calyx, hoisted, nought, pentateuchal, retina, obviated, revelation, stalactite and 193 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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jaradgiese's Words
paronomasia, ostensible, insouciant, sobriquet, burlesque, insalubrious, apotheosis, hyperbole, connubial, felicity, florid, conurbation and 642 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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new words!
errata, corrigenda, lacuna, inculcate, chiaroscuro, temerity, folderol, juggernaut, diadem, alacrity, exegesis, portmanteau and 97 more...
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euphonic logorrhea
cephalopodous, plumulaceous, oblomovism, etiolation, pavonine, somnolent, logorrhea, fulguration, gossamer, prestidigitation, daffodil, inchoate and 174 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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Myth
augean, bacchanal, cereal, cimmerian, cupidity, cyclopean, mercurial, jovial, hermetic, halcyon, titanic, furious and 105 more...
Tweets
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kat daimona of oblivion. Apr 7, 2008