absorbedly

comparative more absorbedly · superlative most absorbedly

1. In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.First known use First attested in the mid 19th century.

   Carey could see her expression. It was the face of one who was deeply and absorbedly interested.

   1943, Mary Norton, chapter 8, in The Magic Bed-Knob, New York: Hyperion

   3 more examples

   Michael O’Shea continued absorbedly gazing on the picture, till the welcome smell of a tumbler of Mr. Hoolagan’s whisky suddenly restored him to comparative serenity.

   1841, R. B. Peake, “The Bequeathed Heart”, in The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 62, 1841 part 2, p. 36

   Fanny, red-cheeked and bright-eyed from her recent mental struggles, listened interestedly, then intently, then absorbedly.

   1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, pages 65–66

   Treslove was no Finkler. He could not lose his heart to more than one woman at a time. He loved too absorbedly for that. But he always knew when he was about to be thrown over and was quick to make provision, where he could, to love absorbedly again.

   2010, Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, Part One, Chapter Four, I, p. 86