The phrase "a forgetfulness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a state or condition of being forgetful or the act of forgetting something.
Example: "Her forgetfulness often led to missed appointments and important deadlines."
Alternatives: "a lapse in memory" or "an instance of forgetfulness".
It is an abandonment, a forgetfulness, and therefore most elusive when we search for it.
New experiences take the place of old ones, new memories, better memories; and all the old selves become interred in a forgetfulness that is itself merciful.
In his 1882 lecture "What is a Nation?", Ernest Renan argued that the question was a "daily plebiscite" for citizens; that every nation is held together by a "forgetfulness" of the brutality out of which it was born.
Given over to the rise and fall of the boat, he was lulled into a forgetfulness, the heave of the ocean working its way into his bones, softening them.
With a forgetfulness that, if genuine, demonstrates how rapidly the most preposterous inventions can acquire the status of fact, even his colleagues at WikiLeaks have convinced themselves that Assange was incarcerated by a British government determined to keep him quiet.
[A] drug which takes away grief and passion and brings a forgetfulness of all ills.
Oklahoma, in short, has vowed never to forget, even when a little forgetfulness might bring a healthy respite.
But he's still amazing, and a little forgetfulness is a normal part of aging.
It has often been noted that the genius of American life is a certain willed forgetfulness, a willingness by the various groups that make up our population to impose an amnesty on the ethnic and religious feuds of elsewhere.
A burnished nostalgia crosses paths with a studied forgetfulness, and myth lurks at every turn.
So it's testimony to his quicksilver skills – or to a collective forgetfulness – that he was greeted at Cannes like a starlet emerged fresh from the ether.
