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Absent-mindedness is a mental state wherein a person is forgetfully inattentive. [1] It is the opposite mental state of mindfulness.. Absent-mindedness is often caused by things such as boredom, sleepiness, rumination, distraction, or preoccupation with one's own internal monologue.
One term that is often used as a near-synonym is mindfulness, which as a concept has similarities to or may include choiceless awareness. [32] Initially part of Buddhist meditation practice, it has been adapted and utilized for contemporary psychological treatment, [33] and has been applied as a component of integrative medicine programs. [34]
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.
Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...
The nondualism of Advaita, relies on the Hindu concept of Ātman which is a Sanskrit word that means "essence" [78] or "real self" of the individual; [79] [80] it is also appropriated as "soul". [ 79 ] [ 81 ] Ātman is the first principle , [ 82 ] the true self of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the essence of an individual.
According to Shi Huifeng, the terms "void" (rittaka), "hollow" (tucchaka), and "coreless" (asāraka) are also used in the early texts to refer to words and things which are deceptive, false, vain, and worthless. [12] This sense of worthlessness and vacuousness is also found in other uses of the term māyā, such as the following:
The word Mindfulness is the English translation of the word Vipassanā, which a combination of two words Vi, meaning in a special way and Passana, to observe, hence implying to observe in a special way. [51] Compassion (karunaa) can be defined as an emotion that elicits the wanting to be free from suffering. [52]