absentmindedness

1. 1.

   preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored

   Broaderpreoccupation

Other forms of absentmindedness

plural

absentmindednesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about absentmindedness

What does absentmindedness mean?

absentmindedness means "preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored".

How many syllables are in absentmindedness?

absentmindedness has 5 syllables: ab-sent-min-ded-ness. The stress falls on "min".

Is absentmindedness a common word?

absentmindedness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.