0 a lack of attention to what you are doing or what is happening around you because you are thinking about other things:
He combined intellectual brilliance with acute absent-mindedness.
She blamed failing to turn up for the appointment on absent-mindedness.
This was in no way due to absent-mindedness.
What we have tried to do in this model is to show that the dynamics of mistakes, or absent-mindedness, are one and the same as those of "correct" responding.
As intention to act may, for example, be swamped by a more potent new external cue, or a competing memory, giving rise to an episode of absent-mindedness.
The painter seems to want it that way, wants our absent-mindedness as much as he wants us to pay no attention to him as a painter.
We have acquired, almost in a fit of absent-mindedness, a new empire of financial power and financial services that gives us a colossal global reach.
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