ABSENCE OF MIND

  

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ABSENCE OF MIND

Synonym: ABSENCE OF MIND

Synonym by domain: absent-mindedness (medicine).

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Synonyms within Context: ABSENCE OF MIND

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Use in Literature: ABSENCE OF MIND

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Modern Translation: ABSENCE OF MIND

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

   

Portuguese

  

ausência (absence, default, negation, non-attendance, privation, want), distracção (abstraction, distraction, diversion), desatenção (listlessness, neglect). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рассеянность (absentmindedness, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, preoccupation, star-gazing, wool gathering, woolgathering). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odsustvo razuma, nedostatak razuma. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

tankspriddhet (absentmindedness, abstractedness, abstraction), sinnesfrånvaro. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dalgınlık (absence, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, Kef, pensiveness, reverie, thoughtfulness, vacancy, vacuity, wandering, woolgathering). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ABSENCE OF MIND

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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