English > paying attention: 2 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people). |
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| Synonyms | attentiveness, heed, regard |
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| Attributes | heedful, attentive, thoughtful, paying attention | taking heed |
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| heedless, unheeding | marked by or paying little heed or attention |
| Narrower | advertence, advertency | The process of being heedful |
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| Broader | attention, attending | The process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others |
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| Opposite | inattentiveness, heedlessness | A lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) |
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| Spanish | atención |
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| Catalan | atenció |
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