Usually means: Without conscious awareness or attention.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word absently:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. absently: Merriam-Webster
  2. absently: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absently: Collins English Dictionary
  4. absently: Vocabulary.com
  5. Absently, absently: Wordnik
  6. absently: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. absently: Wiktionary
  8. absently: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. absently: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Absently, absently: Dictionary.com
  11. absently: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Absently: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. absently: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. absently: Rhymezone
  15. Absently: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. absently: FreeDictionary.org
  17. absently: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. absently: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. absently: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absently: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absently: Idioms

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adverb:  In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.

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