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absentmindedness 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored
  2. (absentminded) absent: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
  3. 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 ...
  4. (absent-minded) adj distriĝemaPIV, distritaIK, neatentemaIK
  5. (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. ...
  6. a form of forgetfulness that results from inattention.