absence of mind

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English

Noun

absence of mind (uncountable)

  1. A state or the quality of being absent-minded (abstracted, preoccupied). [First attested in the early 18th century.][1]

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  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absence of mind”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

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