Difference between Inattentive and Woolgathering

INATTENTIVE vs WOOLGATHERING: NOUN

An idle indulgence in fantasy
The act of gathering wool: usually applied figuratively to the indulgence of idle fancies or to any foolish or fruitless pursuit.
Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
Gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.
Indulging in idle fancies or daydreams.

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

Dreamy in mood or nature
Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.

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

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

Extemporizing, Cloy, Hifalutin, Henpecking, Attitudinizing, Fuddled, Mishear, Overdetermined, Expostulate, Philosophise, Drowse, Hyperbolize, Inattentive, Dreamy, Moony

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

Extemporizing, Cloy, Hifalutin, Henpecking, Attitudinizing, Fuddled, Mishear, Overdetermined, Expostulate, Philosophise, Drowse, Hyperbolize, Inattentive, Dreamy, Moony

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.

My study planning and preparation before downloading this reliable study guide was nothing more than woolgathering.
Crow had seen him woolgathering a number of times before, nothing was secret for long.
SYN: Dream, daydream, trance, vision, phantasy, ideality, woolgathering, wandering, musing.