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Meanings of absentmindedness in English

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Usage of absentmindedness in English
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Now, the effect of absentmindedness may gather strength in its turn.
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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There was a kind of brilliant, beautiful absentmindedness to this lifestyle.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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Foster slouched into his seat with his customary air of absentmindedness.
The Cathedral: A Novel
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Mention has been made already of Mark Twain's tendency to absentmindedness.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Even now we laugh at absentmindedness when presented to us as a simple fact.
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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He had long fits of absentmindedness, during which he was deaf to every noise.
The Aspirations of Jean Servien
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Systematic absentmindedness, like that of Don Quixote, is the most comical thing imaginable .
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
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There was absentmindedness worthy of a professor or a priest.
American empire: blood and iron
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Indeed, the deeper the absentmindedness the higher the comedy.
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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Then, simulating absentmindedness, I threw it into the fire.
Simon the Jester
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R. locked his door in a fit of absentmindedness.
The new yorker
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But all that he does as a private individual is carried out in a profound absentmindedness.
Last and First Men
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Men and women worked and played, loved and suffered; but always in a kind of rapt absentmindedness.
Last and First Men
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This absentmindedness in events, however, is exceptional.
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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He seemed overcome by a strange absentmindedness.
The End of the Tether
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Yet they worked in a strange mood of attentive absentmindedness; for their hearts were ever in the air.
Last and First Men
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