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absentmindedness
n.
state of being distracted, state of being confused
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Absent-mindedness
Absent-mindedness is where a person shows inattentive or forgetful behaviour. It can have three different causes:
- a low level of attention ("blanking" or "zoning out")
- intense attention to a single object of focus (hyperfocus) that makes a person oblivious to events around him or her; or
- unwarranted distraction of attention from the object of focus by irrelevant thoughts or environmental events.
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absentmindedness
Noun
1. preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored
(hypernym) preoccupation, preoccupancy, absorption, engrossment
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absentmindedness
Synonyms and related words:
Lethe, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, bemusement, brown study, carelessness, castle-building, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, decay of memory, depth of thought, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, dream, dreaming, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, flightiness, flippancy, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, frivolousness, giddiness, hazy recollection, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, levity, lightmindedness, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, negligence, nepenthe, nirvana, nonobservance, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, regardlessness, reverie, shallowness, short memory, stargazing, study, superficiality, thoughtlessness, trance, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unwariness, unwatchfulness, waters of oblivion, woolgathering
Lethe, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, bemusement, brown study, carelessness, castle-building, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, decay of memory, depth of thought, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, dream, dreaming, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, flightiness, flippancy, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, frivolousness, giddiness, hazy recollection, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, levity, lightmindedness, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, negligence, nepenthe, nirvana, nonobservance, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, regardlessness, reverie, shallowness, short memory, stargazing, study, superficiality, thoughtlessness, trance, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unwariness, unwatchfulness, waters of oblivion, woolgathering
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