absent-minded professor

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1. 1

   A stereotypical fictional character whose focus on academic matters leads them to ignore…

   A stereotypical fictional character whose focus on academic matters leads them to ignore or forget their surroundings.

   • Although the absent-minded professor has appeared frequently in American humor it is safe to assert that the dire extremity of the learned man in the tragedy of A Defective Memory could hardly have been reached outside of Germany.
2. 2

   A person who tends to be oblivious to reality.

   • Snapshot: Jimmy, a third-grader, is an absent-minded professor before his time. He forgets everything, from his lunch box in the morning, to his raincoat
   • Judith: I call Jim "The Ditz" when he is the absent-minded professor.
   • ... a dreamy youth whose siblings teased him for being an absent-minded professor.

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