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attentiveness

[ UK /ɐtˈɛntɪvnəs/ ]
[ US /əˈtɛntɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others
  2. paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
    he spends without heed to the consequences
    his attentiveness to her wishes
  3. the trait of being observant and paying attention

How To Use attentiveness In A Sentence

  • So I think that kind of concentration and focus and attentiveness is hard to come by – it’s hard to find huge numbers of people, large numbers of people, significant numbers of people, who have those qualities, he said. Philip Roth gives novel a quarter of a century
  • Doctors suggest drivers avoid eating certain kinds of fruits, such as bananas and litchis, because these fruits can result in inattentiveness, sleepiness and fatigue, which increase the risk of traffic accidents.
  • What's rather unique about this album is their dedication to structure, their deliberate attentiveness to carving the outlines of each song with methodic gusto.
  • The character described in the poem comes “alive awhile” through the attentiveness he pays the simplest of events – a bird flies from a branch. April 2009
  • After reading for some minutes, until his expression merged from attentiveness into seriousness, and from that into a kind of pain, the cosmopolitan slowly laid down the book, and turning to the old man, who thus far had been watching him with benign curiosity, said: "Can you, my aged friend, resolve me a doubt -- a disturbing doubt? The Confidence-Man
  • The rise of public attentiveness and the growing influence of stakeholders forced the government to act.
  • The novel itself provides the perfect venue for detailing one's attentiveness to the world.
  • By defamiliarizing well-known buildings, some of which we may have an image of in our mind, Sugimoto compels us to consider them with renewed attentiveness.
  • Girls and boys with ADHD will demonstrate similar rates of inattentiveness and fidgetiness.
  • How much 'pleasantness' and attentiveness should be required, beyond good 'personal skills'? Archive 2008-06-29
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