absent-minded
adjective
so lost in thought that one does not realize what one is doing, what is happening, etc.; preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one's immediate surroundings.
absent-mindedness
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a word derived from
absent-minded.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Johnson has previously weathered one scandal after another, building a buffer from his aura of chronic absent-mindedness and posh eccentricity.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019
Carlos Rivera tells fondly of his cousin’s absent-mindedness, epitomized by the time Edgar realized that one of his savings certificates was missing.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2019
There was no glory in nerdy dishevelment, in tweedy absent-mindedness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2017
We have shown that the comic character always errs through obstinacy of mind or of disposition, through absent-mindedness, in short, through automatism.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2015
They are symptoms of absent-mindedness in a writer who has forgotten that he should be staging an event for the reader.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
