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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inattention | Abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It has taken you, no matter how or where, by any portion whatever of your thought which was trailing, through any absence of mind. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "ABSENCE OF MIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hutim (abashment, absentmindedness, bewilderment, confusion, discomfiture, distraction, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, maze, nonplus, perplexity, puzzlement, vagueness, wool gathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разсеяност (absence, absentmindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, distraction, forgetfulness, preoccupation, vacancy, wool gathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | absence (absence, petit mal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | absentia mentalis (absentmindedness), verzet (distraction, diversion, resistance), verstrooiing (distraction, diversion), verstrooidheid (absence, absentness), geestesafwezigheid (absentmindedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | distriteco (abstraction), distriĝo, distriĝemo (abstraction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | gáloysi (absence, absentness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inattention (absence, absentness, abstraction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Absentia mentalis(lat.) (absentmindedness), Zerstreuung (absent-mindedness, allaying, diffusion, dispelling, dispersal, dissipation, distractibility, distraction, diversion, removal, scattering), geistesabwesenheit (absentmindedness, absent-mindedness, absentmindednesses, vagueness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απώλεια της σκέψης (absentmindedness), αφηρημάδα (absent-mindedness, abstraction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szórakozottság (absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, abstraction of mind, dissipation of mind, lightheadedness, preoccupation, star-gazing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | distrazione (absentmindedness, absent-mindedness, abstraction, amusement, dispersal, distractibility, distraction, inattention, misappropriation, recreation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | absenceay ofay indmay ausência (absence, default, negation, non-attendance, privation, want), distracção (abstraction, distraction, diversion), desatenção (listlessness, neglect). (various references) рассеянность (absentmindedness, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, preoccupation, star-gazing, wool gathering, woolgathering). (various references) odsustvo razuma, nedostatak razuma. (various references) ausencia (absence, absentia, absentness, dearth, deficiency, lack, non attendance, non-appearance, non-arrival, want), distracción (absentmindedness, abstraction, amusement, avocation, debauch, distraction, diversion, vagueness). (various references) tankspriddhet (absentmindedness, abstractedness, abstraction), sinnesfrånvaro. (various references) dalgınlık (absence, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, Kef, pensiveness, reverie, thoughtfulness, vacancy, vacuity, wandering, woolgathering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-f-i-m-n-n-o-s" | |
-3 letters: dominances, macedoines, menadiones. | |
-4 letters: adenosine, ambiences, bedsoniae, bonifaces, canonised, comedians, defiances, demoniacs, dominance, macedoine, menadione, obeisance. | |
-5 letters: abdomens, adenines, ambience, amidones, anemones, bandsmen, beaconed, beadsmen, bedesman, bedsonia, bemoaned, bondsman, bondsmen, boniface, canonise, casefied, codeinas, codeines, combined, combines, comedian, comedies, condemns, condense, confides, confined, confines, daemones, daemonic, daimones, decennia, defiance, demoniac, demonian, demonise, diocesan. | |
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| 1. Synonyms 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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