absent-mindedness
See also: absentmindedness
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absent-mindedness (countable and uncountable, plural absent-mindednesses)
- The characteristic or state of being easily distracted or preoccupied. [First attested in the late 19th century.][1]
- I don't mean to make mistakes; it's just absent-mindedness.
- For six years they had taken care of him and loved him—watched over his outgoings and his incomings and forgiven all his absent-mindednesses.
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state or quality of being preoccupied
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Further reading edit
- absent-mindedness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References edit
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absent-mindedness”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.