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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absent, absentminded, abstracted, scatty]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1829 1. lost in thought and unaware of one's surroundings or actions ; preoccupied; also given to absence of mind 2. indicative of or resulting from preoccupation or absence of mind Synonyms: see abstracted • absentmindedly adverb • absentmindedness noun