inattention

Roget category 458

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.2. Precursory conditions and operations
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#458. Inattention

noun

inattention, inconsideration — inconsiderateness etc. adj. — oversight — inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard.
supineness etc. (inactivity) 683 — etourderie [Fr.], want of thought — heedlessness etc. (neglect) 460 — insouciance etc. (indifference) 866.
abstraction — absence of mind, absorption of mind — preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction.

verb

be inattentive etc. adj. — overlook, disregard — pass by etc. (neglect) 460 — not observe etc. 457 — think little of.
close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to — pay no attention to — dismiss from one's thoughts, discard from one's thoughts, discharge from one's thoughts, dismiss from one's mind, discard from one's mind, discharge from one's mind — drop the subject, think no more of — set aside, turn aside, put aside — turn away from, turn one's attention from, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon.
abstract oneself, dream, indulge in reverie.
escape notice, escape attention — come in at one ear and go out at the other — forget etc. (have no remembrance) 506.
call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind — put out of one's head — disconcert, discompose — put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider^†, fluster, muddle, dazzle — throw a sop to Cerberus.

adjective

inattentive — unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning^† — inadvertent — mindless, regardless, respectless^†, listless etc. (indifferent) 866 — blind, deaf — bird-witted — hand over head — cursory, percursory^† — giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained — unreflective, unreflecting^†, ecervele [Fr.] — offhand — dizzy, muzzy^†, brainsick^† — giddy, giddy as a goose — wild, harum-scarum, rantipole^†, highflying — heedless, careless etc. (neglectful) 460.
inconsiderate, thoughtless.
absent, abstracted, distrait — absentminded, lost — lost in thought, wrapped in thought — rapt, in the clouds, bemused — dreaming on other things, musing on other things — preoccupied, engrossed etc. (attentive) 457 — daydreaming, in a reverie etc. n. — off one's guard etc. (inexpectant) 508^† — napping — dreamy — caught napping.
disconcerted, distracted, put out etc. v..

adverb

inattentively, inadvertently, absent-mindedly etc. adj.^† — per incuriam [Lat.], sub silentio [Lat.].

interjection

stand at ease, stand easy!,

phrase

the attention wanders — one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's wits gone a bird's nesting — it never entered into one's head — the mind running on other things — one's thoughts being elsewhere — had it been a bear it would have bitten you.

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