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PAYING ATTENTION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

Example:

he spends without heed to the consequences

Synonyms:

attentiveness; heed; paying attention; regard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("paying attention" is a kind of...):

attending; attention (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)

Attribute:

heedless; unheeding (marked by or paying little heed or attention)

attentive; heedful; paying attention; thoughtful (taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paying attention"):

advertence; advertency (the process of being heedful)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention

Example:

heedful of what they were doing

Synonyms:

attentive; heedful; paying attention; thoughtful

Classified under:

Adjectives

Attribute:

attentiveness; heed; paying attention; regard (paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people))

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