absent-mindedness
21absent-minded — adjective forgetful or inattentive. Derivatives absent mindedly adverb absent mindedness noun …
22absent-minded — /æbsənt ˈmaɪndəd / (say absuhnt muynduhd) adjective forgetful of one s immediate surroundings; preoccupied. –absent mindedly, adverb –absent mindedness, noun …
23abstraction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. preoccupation; abridgment. See inattention, shortness, thought. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The state of being absorbed] Syn. deliberation, absorption, preoccupation, speculation, absent mindedness, musing …
24folly — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, inanity, point lessness, fatuousness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsen sicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, Archaic. insipience; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; preposterousness,… …
25idiocy — n 1. imbecility, moronism, moronity, retardation, Psychiatry. amentia; senility, anility, dotage; simple mindedness, shallowness, feeble mindedness, weak mindedness; harebrainedness, giddiness, recklessness; absent mindedness, confusedness,… …
26Denis Compton — Personal information Full name Denis Charles Scott Compton Born 23 May 1918(1918 05 23) Hendon, Middlesex, England Died 23 April 1997 …
27The Seven Sins of Memory — The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers is a book (ISBN 0 618 21919 6) by Daniel Schacter, former chair of Harvard University s Psychology Department and a leading memory researcher.The book revolves around the theory that… …
28Daniel Schacter — Daniel Lawrence Schacter (born June 17, 1952 in New York) is an American psychologist. He is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research has focused on psychological and biological aspects of human memory and amnesia, with a… …
29Discworld gods — See also: Discworld (world)#Magic Some of the Discworld gods at Dunmanifestin. L R: Sessifet (off left),Offler, Flatulus (behind Offler), Fate, Urika, Blind Io, Libertina, The Lady, Bibulous, Patina (behind Bibulous), Topaxi (in front of… …
30detachment — n 1. disconnection, separation, severing, disseverance, disengagement, disjoining; loosening, unfixing; division, disunion, dissociation, segregation, abstraction. 2. aloofness, unconcern, indifference; preoccupation, absent mindedness,… …
