absentmindedness
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7.4
- noun
- /ˌæb.səntˈmaɪnd.ɪd.nəs/
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distraimiento
- During a moment of absentmindedness, she forgot to turn off the stove while cooking.
- transience and absentmindedness
Examples
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Soon afterward, in a moment of absentmindedness, he left the detachable face of the car stereo behind at a gas station.
Fiction book (2001) -
This sort of absentmindedness plagues a huge percentage of the world's population.
Blog text (7) -
Despite his clumsiness and notorious absentmindedness, he moved in the highest intellectual circles of England and Scotland.
Academic text (1992) -
In her absentmindedness, she turned the wrong way and started to go up the bank building's stairs to Andy's office, but the office hadn't been there for years, and she stopped with a feeling of being caught out at something.
Fiction book (1993) -
When pig raising did not take his full attention, he felt inadequate or hypocritical; in his absentmindedness, he failed his agrarian ideals.
Fiction book (1996) -
She had returned to the absentmindedness people have when they get ready to go on a long trip, or people who live somewhere for a long time, and when the time finally comes to leave, they don't really know where they're going.
Fiction book (2000) -
In her state of absentmindedness, she walked straight past the bus stop without noticing.
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His absentmindedness led him to misplace his keys almost every day.
Synonyms
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3.5
A habit of not remembering things like names or keys
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4.6
Not noticing things around you
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7.4
Not noticing things happening around you
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5.4
Not knowing or noticing something
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7.3
A lack of thought or care in what someone does
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7.0
Not paying attention that causes mistakes or hurts others
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7.5
A tendency to lose focus because of things around you
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7.8
Not paying attention to danger or important things
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9.3
Not paying attention causes mistakes
A state of being deeply lost in thought and not noticing things around you
Not able to pay attention because your mind is on other things
A state when you cannot focus on a task or idea
Not paying attention and being careless about work
Not giving needed care and attention to responsibilities or people
Lack of attention that makes you forget or ignore tasks
Antonyms
How Attentive
Surface Forms
Morphology
absentmindedness = absentminded (transparent) = absent + mind + ed + ness
The adjective 'absentminded' (absent + mind + -ed) clearly yields the noun 'absentmindedness' by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ness'.
Etymology
Absentmindedness comes from absent meaning 'not present' and mind meaning 'memory' or 'attention', with -ness turning it into the name of a state. So it means your 'mind' is not there, which is why the word describes being so distracted you forget or miss things.