absently

Adverb

 * 1) In an absent-minded or abstracted manner.
 * 2) * 1891,, , Phase the Fourth, Chapter 34,
 * his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.
 * his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.