Word Meanings - ABSENT-MINDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.

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• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• ABSENTATION
  The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• ABSENTEEISM
  The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
• ABSENTEE
  One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.
• ABSENTANEOUS
  Pertaining to absence.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• ABSENTER
  One who absents one's self.
• ABSENT-MINDED
  Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.
• ABSENTNESS
  The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.
• ABSTRACTIVE
  Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.
• ABSENTMENT
  The state of being absent; withdrawal. Barrow.
• ABSTRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
• ABSTRACTLY
  In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
• ABSENTLY
  In an absent or abstracted manner.
• ABSTRACTER
  One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
• ABSTRACTIVELY
  In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.
• INABSTRACTED
  Not abstracted.