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Absently

//ˈæb.sn̩t.li// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.

    "When he is in company he will sit absently muttering over a heap of Arabick, or in a Ciceronian attitude, declaim with all the vehemency of eloquence […]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an absentminded or preoccupied manner wordnet

Etymology

From absent + -ly.

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