Difference between Inattentive and Absentminded

INATTENTIVE vs ABSENTMINDED: ADJECTIVE

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

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

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

Flighty, Cranky, Neurotic, Dimwitted, Crabby, Unobservant, Doltish, Distractible, Clueless, Scatterbrained, Forgetful, Abstracted, Absent, Inattentive, Scatty

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

Flighty, Cranky, Neurotic, Dimwitted, Crabby, Unobservant, Doltish, Distractible, Clueless, Scatterbrained, Forgetful, Abstracted, Absent, Inattentive, Scatty

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.

Impulses and back as usual, whether he acts together or absentminded playing or its toxic.
Automatic unusual behaviour, such as acting as if drunk or absentminded, was also observed.
The professor is absentminded and never remembers the names of her students.
Beethoven seems to have been extremely careless about his physical appearance; he certainly was absentminded.
Wayne Szalinzki a wacky, absentminded inventor, is back again but only this time he decides.
We never yet heard of an absentminded professor who forgot to flunk anyone.
But absentminded users should steer clear of this easy-to-misplace player.
It was an absentminded habit that drew more attention than she intended.
Congress approached the subject in a somewhat hasty and absentminded manner.
Paul, and in the same absentminded thought, disregard John Stockton.