Both Uses of
oblivion
in
Anna Karenina
- And every time he was brought back from a moment of oblivion by a scream reaching him from the bedroom, he fell into the same strange terror that had come upon him the first minute.†
Part 7
- There had been a period of repose, and he had sunk into oblivion.†
Part 7 *
Definition:
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(oblivion) the state of being completely forgotten
or:
the state of being completely destroyed -- typically so as to no longer exist
or:
a state of having lost all sense of what is going on -- as during sleep or use of some drugs