lethe means the personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris. It carries an Arena rating of 1870, earned across 26 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, lethe ranks #172 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #288 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words, #369 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #521 of 17,131 for Scariest Words.
lethe is pronounced /ˈliːθi/.
Why “lethe” is a great word
A river of oblivion in the underworld whose waters erase all memory of past existence, or the state of such oblivion itself. From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē, 'forgetfulness, oblivion'), related to the verb λανθάνω (lanthánō, 'to escape notice, to forget'). Unlike Mnemosyne, the vigilant mother of the Muses who preserves all that was, or lethargy, a mere sluggishness of the senses, Lethe is a total and irrevocable un-knowing. It is the dark draft swallowed by the shade, the blank page where a name once stood, the moment a dream dissolves upon waking and cannot be retrieved—a mercy so profound it is the self unwritten, the particular grief that made you *you* lifted clean away.
Etymology
From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).
name
- The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
- The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.
noun
- Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
- Dissimulation.
- Death.
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