Attention

Quick meaning: Attention is a noun meaning (uncountable) Mental focus.

Meaning

(uncountable) Mental focus.

More Meanings

1. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
2. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
3. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
4. A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.
5. (uncountable, machine learning) A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between tokens from two (or more) input sequences in order to compute the required output.

Example Sentences

The company will now come to attention.

Please direct your attention to the following words.

For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.

She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.

Word Forms

• attentions

Synonyms for attention

Depending on context, synonyms include advertence, advertency, consideration, heed, heedfulness, mark.

Antonyms for attention

Common opposites include apathy, inattention, neglect, oversight.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include attending, aid, care, tending, concentration, emphasis.

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