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disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope.

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. "Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.

The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.

(something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift.

To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect. Can a woman forget her sucking child . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Is. xlix. 15. To forget one's self. (a) To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what…

Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.

The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. Jer. Taylor.

Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.

Inattention.

ossum. [Colloq. U. S.] To play possum, To act possum, to feign ignorance, indifference or inattention, with the intent to deceive; to dissemble; -- in allusion to the habit of the opossum, which feigns death when attacked or alarmed.

To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.

Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.