erasure

noun

Etymology: From Latin ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra, equivalent to erase + -ure.

1. 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. 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. The place where something has been erased.

   “There were several erasures on the paper.”

4. A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.

   “bisexual erasure”