absentmindedness
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- preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored
- (absentminded) absent: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
- Absent-mindedness can refer to three very different things: # 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
# unwarranted distraction of attention from the object of ...
- (absent-minded) adj distriĝemaPIV, distritaIK, neatentemaIK
- (absentminded) Losing oneself in thought, or in dreaming dreams—to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings or actions—is a cerebral pleasure available only to the unemployed idler. ...
- a form of forgetfulness that results from inattention.