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inattention|ɪnəˈtɛnʃən|
[in-3: perh. a. F. inattention (1701 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Want of attention; failure to attend, take heed, or fix the mind attentively upon any matter; want of observant care or notice; heedlessness, negligence.
1710Tatler No. 187 ⁋6 The universal Indolence and Inattention among us to Things that concern the Publick. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. (1813) I. i. 30 This was not owing to the inattention of our princes. 1793Beddoes Calculus etc. 272 He was totally misled by some inattention in conducting his processes. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 61, I recollected her inattention to my discourse of the preceding morning.
b. Want of courteous personal attention.
c1792Hayley Let. to Cowper (in Sotheby's Catal. July 1887), Damped by a little blank gloomy inattention from our great Friend. 1794S. Williams Vermont 183 From the beardless countenance, and inattention of the Indian to the female. |