Difference between Inattentive and Absent

INATTENTIVE vs ABSENT: NOUN

Not showing due care or attention
Exhibiting a lack of attention; not attentive.
Unwilling to hear
Showing a lack of attention
Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless
Inattentive because of lack of interest
Of or pertaining to lack of attention; not paying attention; careless.
Showing a lack of attention or care
Not paying attention

To keep (oneself) away.
To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
To withhold from being present.

Synonyms Abstracted, Preoccupied, etc. See absent.
Not attentive; not fixing the mind attentively; heedless; careless; negligent: as, an inattentive habit.

To make absent; take or keep away: now used only reflexively, but formerly sometimes otherwise, as by Milton: as, to absent one's self from home; he absented himself from the meeting.
Not in a certain place at a given time; not in consciousness or thought at a certain time; away: opposed to present.
Not existing; wanting; not forming a part or attribute of: as, among them refinement is absent; revenge is entirely absent from his mind.
Absent-minded (which see).
Stay away or leave
Lost in thought
Showing preoccupation

Yawning, Absent, Moony, Unheeding, Woolgathering, Uninterested, Scatty, Negligent, Oblivious, Unobservant, Drowsy, Neglectful, Absentminded, Forgetful, Distracted

Abstracted, Wanting, Away, Scatty, Remove, Gone, Absentminded, Inattentive, Awol, Truant, Departed, Nonexistent, Lacking, Missing, Devoid

Yawning, Absent, Moony, Unheeding, Woolgathering, Uninterested, Scatty, Negligent, Oblivious, Unobservant, Drowsy, Neglectful, Absentminded, Forgetful, Distracted

Abstracted, Wanting, Away, Scatty, Remove, Gone, Absentminded, Inattentive, Awol, Truant, Departed, Nonexistent, Lacking, Missing, Devoid

Children may demonstrate inattentive behavior with minimal hyperactivity.
Symptom Count score on the ADHD inattentive scale.
Some people with ADHD have mainly inattentive symptoms.
Principal and some teachers at XXX are inattentive.
The student is unfocused and inattentive in class.
However, he is inattentive and a bit stupid.
Zeeh was issued a citation for inattentive driving.
Children with delayed language may appear more inattentive.
IV inattentive subtype fell either within the severe inattentive orthe severe combined type latent classes.
Six or more symptoms in the Inattentive Category is known as ADHD: Predominantly Inattentive Presentation.

Spanish Club meetings when the President is absent.
Carrier shall not be liable absent actual negligence.
What molecule was noticeably absent from early earth?
The bolsters common to hotel rooms were absent.
Separate juvenile facilities countrywide are still virtually absent.
Republicans and one Democrat absent or not voting.
In general, the same rules and procedures apply to combined absent voter counting boards that apply to other absent voter counting boards.
It is usually defined by the length of time an individual has been absent from work or is likely to be absent from work.
It simply states absent posterior tibial pulse or absent dorsalis pedis pulse.
Body roundish, skull bones extremely thin, subocular shelf absent; supramaxilla reduced or absent; uniquely modified extrascapular bone.