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absentmindedness


  • n  preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored

  • This is something that bothers me very much: absentmindedness about people.
  • His absentmindedness was the talk of the campus.
  • The famous absentmindedness, so jolly in his later years, was not so benign when it came to human contact.

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