0 a lack of attention to what you are doing or what is happening around you because you are thinking about other things: --
You can overdo absent-mindedness about material things.
Let us suppose that a person of good character who has never done anything wrong walks out of a supermarket in a moment of absent-mindedness carrying something.
If an elderly pedestrian crosses the road and steps out immediately in front of a motor car owing to absent-mindedness, he receives no compensation because it is his fault.
We can only commiserate with those who do not have an "e" and regret their carelessness in losing it or their absent-mindedness in not having one in the first place.
Governments sometimes have to save people from themselves—from their neglect, absent-mindedness or just ignorance of the potential dangers.
That protects the innocent woman who may have got herself into this situation by absent-mindedness, by her escort being late or because of various reasons.
Let us be clear that long-term unemployment has not doubled following a fit of absent-mindedness on the part of politicians.
But he has subsequently proved that that was a moment of absent-mindedness, and he is now firmly back in the "let it rip" camp.
