And we usually call it absentmindedness, but what's really happening is we're experiencing a lapse in executive function.

One knows he is destined to be forever the dreamer, with some small triumphs ( a booking by a Russian for a lecture in Moscow, missed by Andre's absentmindedness, a winning of a video contest put on by SETI ).

Anthonys absentmindedness makes him incapable of understanding Richards plans.

There are many people who have been able to make foolishness, absentmindedness and idiocy very funny (Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd are the best place to start).

In reality, this memory problem concerns ordinary absentmindedness that emerges in the wake of trauma; it does not refer to an inability to remember the trauma itself.

Becky resumed her picture inspections with Alfred, but as the minutes dragged along and no Tom came to suffer, her triumph began to cloud and she lost interest; gravity and absentmindedness followed, and then melancholy; two or three times she pricked up her ear at a footstep, but it was a false hope; no Tom came.

Absentmindedness in sentence

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