Definitions for absent-minded professor
ab·sent-mind·ed pro·fes·sor

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1. absent-minded professornoun

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

2. absent-minded professornoun

   A person who tends to be oblivious to reality.

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1. Absent-minded professor

   The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction, usually portrayed as a talented academic whose academic brilliance is accompanied by below-par functioning in other areas, leading to forgetfulness and mistakes. One explanation of this is that highly talented individuals often have unevenly distributed capabilities, being brilliant in their field of choice but below average on other measures of ability. Alternatively, they are considered to be so engrossed in their field of study that they forget their surroundings. The phrase is also commonly used in English to describe people who are so engrossed in their own world that they fail to keep track of their surroundings. It is a common stereotype that professors get so obsessed with their research that they pay little attention to anything else. The archetype is sometimes mixed with that of the mad scientist, often for comic effect, as in the Jerry Lewis film The Nutty Professor or the Profesor Bacterio in the Mortadelo y Filemón comics and movies. However, a distinction is usually made that absent-minded professors are forgetful and careless rather than maliciously causing harm.

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1. Absent-minded professor

   The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction, usually portrayed as a talented academic whose focus on academic matters leads him or her to ignore or forget his or her surroundings. The phrase "absent-minded professor" is also commonly used more generally in English to describe people who are so engrossed in their 'own world' that they fail to keep track of their surroundings. It is a common stereotype that professors get so obsessed with their research that they pay little attention to anything else. The stereotype is very old: the ancient Greek biographer Diogenes Laërtius wrote that the philosopher Thales walked at night with his eyes focused on the heavens and, as a result, fell down a well.

How to pronounce absent-minded professor?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of absent-minded professor in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of absent-minded professor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of absent-minded professor in a Sentence

1. David Caruso:

   I love Will Danoff, he's like the absent-minded professor and he has encyclopedia knowledge of stocks, if he were to leave I would have to think very hard about leaving my assets there.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Absent-Minded_Professor
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absent-Minded_Professor
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=absent-minded professor