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Absentmindedness

noun
1.
Preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored.





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"Absentmindedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... allow nothing of the kind. With a more decided character, Alice's prepossessions would certainly have made life at the Manor anything but smooth; as it was, nothing ever occurred to make unpleasantness worth her while. Besides, when not buried in her novels, she gave herself up to absentmindedness; Adela found conversation with her almost impossible, for Alice would answer a remark with a smiling 'Yes' or 'No,' and at once go off into dreamland, so that one hesitated ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... he answered, with a warning absentmindedness. Presently he went to the library, and shutting out the amenities of that cheerful evening, shut in his ...
— The Colossus - A Novel • Opie Read


Words linked to "Absentmindedness" :   preoccupation, absorption, preoccupancy, absentminded, engrossment


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