Usually means: Daydreaming, absent-minded collection of thoughts.
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  1. woolgathering: Merriam-Webster
  2. woolgathering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. woolgathering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. woolgathering: Vocabulary.com
  5. Woolgathering, woolgathering: Wordnik
  6. woolgathering: Wiktionary
  7. woolgathering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. woolgathering: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. woolgathering: Dictionary.com
  10. woolgathering: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Woolgathering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Woolgathering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. woolgathering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. woolgathering: Rhymezone
  15. Woolgathering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. woolgathering: FreeDictionary.org
  17. woolgathering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Woolgathering: The Word Detective
  19. woolgathering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (woolgathering)

▸ noun:  The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.
▸ noun:  Indulgence in idle fancies or daydreams.

Similar:
dreamy, moony, inattentive, wool-gathering, plucking, woolshed, tegg, firewooding, gare, gleaning, more...

Opposite:
focus, concentration, attentiveness

Types:
daydreaming, fantasizing, musing, contemplating, speculating, pondering, more...

Adjectives:
parliamentary, mere, moral, great, unproductive
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Similar:
dreamy, moony, inattentive, wool-gathering, plucking, woolshed, tegg, firewooding, gare, gleaning, more...

Opposite:
focus, concentration, attentiveness

Types:
daydreaming, fantasizing, musing, contemplating, speculating, pondering, more...

Adjectives:
parliamentary, mere, moral, great, unproductive



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