erasure

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.

   “An inroad on the strongbox, or an erasure in the ledger, or a missummation in a fitted account, could hardly have surprised him more disagreeably.”

   “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The state of having been erased; total blankness.

   “Bush, even when he had the floor, grimaced as he spoke, except on several occasions when he lost his way and a look of total erasure came over him, a blank, stricken stare for which the French, alas, have the most apt expression: like a cow watching a train go by.”

3. (countable, uncountable)The place where something has been erased.

   “There were several erasures on the paper.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.

   “bisexual erasure”