attentionn.

Brit.

/əˈtɛnʃn/, U.S.

/əˈtɛn(t)ʃən/

Etymology: < Latin attentiōn-em, noun of action < attendĕre to attend v. Used by Chaucer in translating from Latin, then not found till c1600; not in French till 16th cent.

a. The action, fact, or state of attending or giving heed; earnest direction of the mind, consideration, or regard; esp. in to pay or give attention. The mental power or faculty of attending; esp. with attract, call, draw, arrest, fix, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [noun]

gomec1175

thoughtc1175

tenta1300

curec1300

intentc1320

keepa1325

heed1357

attendancec1374

attentionc1374

aspect1393

marka1400

notea1400

advertencea1413

markingc1443

regard1457

advertisementc1487

noticec1487

attent?a1500

advertation?c1500

respect1509

garda1569

intendiment1590

on-waiting1590

attend1594

tendment1597

attending1611

fixationa1631

adversion1642

heeding1678

attendancya1680

perpensity1704

observe1805

intending1876

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. i. 29 After þat she hadde gadred..myn attencioun she seide þus.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 6 The tongues of dying men, Inforce attention .

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 618 Attention held them mute.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlix. 183 The attention I should have paid to your failings.

1871 S. Smiles Character i. 21 They still arrest the attention.

1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein III. 478 He marked with attention all that appeared from other pens.

b. metaphorical. (See quot.)

ΚΠ

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xix. 111 When the Ideas that offer themselves,..are taken notice of, and, as it were, registred in the Memory, it is Attention.

1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. III. App. 396 Attention is that state of mind which prepares a man to receive impressions.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxx. 136 Attention is the voluntary direction of the mind upon an object, with the intention of fully apprehending it.

2. Practical consideration, observant care, notice.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun]

yemec893

carefulnessa1000

getec1175

gomec1175

tenta1300

curec1300

keepa1325

diligence1340

heed1357

tentivenessa1382

observancec1390

businessa1398

reasona1398

attendancec1400

resporta1413

curiosityc1430

mindingc1449

reckc1475

respect1509

regardshipa1513

looking unto1525

peradvertencea1529

looking toa1535

solicitudea1535

looking after?1537

solicitudeness1547

care1548

solicitnessc1550

caring1556

heedfulness1561

solicitateness1562

hofulness1566

regard1573

charishness1587

on-waiting1590

heediness1596

take-heed1596

respectiveness1598

observationa1616

solicitousness1636

heeding1678

curiousness1690

solicitation1693

attention1741

craftsmanship1850

1741 Ld. Chesterfield Let. Aug. (1932) (modernized text) II. 471 They have attention to everything, and always mind what they are about.

1816 F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. ii. xv. 775 (note) To soften the rude manners of an uncultivated people by a benignant attention to their morals.

1882 Daily Tel. 4 May [Markets] Oats met with a moderate amount of attention at Monday's prices.

a. The action of attending to the comfort and pleasure of others; ceremonious politeness, courtesy. Often in plural spec. to pay attention or one's attention to: to court.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > pay amorous attention to [verb]

to make or pay (one's) court to1716

attention1752

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence > diligence in service

diligence1493

officiousness1596

assiduity1641

assidencea1656

attention1752

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun]

gentilessea1413

courtesya1475

humanitya1533

urbanities1630

courtship1631

civility1645

gallantry1673

complaisance1710

politeness1720

complacency1749

attention1752

customary1756

sensibility1795

personality1811

amenity1826

suavities1852

1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 July (1932) (modernized text) V. 1913 Nice and scrupulous, in points of ceremony, respect, and attention.

1774 Ld. Chesterfield Lett. to Son I. 96 A well-bred man..takes care that his attentions for you be not troublesome.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ii. 31 To ‘pay attention,’ as they say, to some young lady.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. ii. 48 Philip received all the attentions which an elegant hospitality could devise.

b. More widely: the action of taking special notice of a person, whether favourable or unfavourable. Often plural euphemistically.

ΚΠ

1771 Town & Country Mag. Jan. 12/1 The particular attention paid to her by a certain northern potentate.

1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter ii. viii To shield her from the attentions of the thoughtless or the vicious.

1920 R. Macaulay Potterism v. § 4. 187 An egotistic craving for attention, even unfavourable attention.

1929 Morning Post 26 Mar. 14/5 By submitting to the attentions of a Roman officer.

†4. A matter of attention, a consideration. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > worthy of notice

notabilityc1390

notables1484

bumming sound1598

grandee1622

observable1639

remarkable1639

observanda1663

remark1675

observation1736

crowning glory1780

attentiona1806

notabilia1849

day1918

one for the (end) books (also book)1922

a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 156 Distances, lines, angles, and other mechanical, subordinate attentions.

a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 185 The chiaroscuro and the other attentions of the composition should be calculated.

a. ‘A cautionary word used as a preparative to any particular exercise or manœuvre.’ C. James Mil. Dict. to come to attention: to assume a prepared military attitude; so to stand at attention.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military organization > orders > [noun] > word of command > preliminary

attention1792

caution1796

tention1908

society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (intransitive)] > stand to attention

to stand shouldered1811

to draw oneself up, spring, etc., to attention1859

to come to attention1870

1792 Rules & Regulations for Formations His Majesty’s Forces 6 Upon the word Attention, no one shall have materially lost his dressing in the line.

1792 Rules & Regulations His Majesty's Forces i. 6 On the word, Attention, the hands are to fall smartly down the outside of the thighs; the right heel to be brought up in a line with the left; and the proper unconstrained position of a soldier..resumed.

1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxvii. 45 He attention's look display'd As he was wont on war's parade.

1870 Daily News 1 Oct. Yonder sergeant of Zouaves..comes promptly to attention when an officer addresses him.

b. to stand (at, to) attention: to stand in the military attitude assumed at the word of command ‘Attention!’ Also to draw oneself up, spring, etc., to attention.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (intransitive)] > stand to attention

to stand shouldered1811

to draw oneself up, spring, etc., to attention1859

to come to attention1870

1859 G. J. Whyte-Melville Holmby House (1860) xviii. 276 He..stood gaunt and dripping at ‘attention’.

1866 G. J. Whyte-Melville Cerise (ed. 3) I. i. 11 Like a soldier who springs to ‘attention’.

1879 H. Hartigan Stray Leaves ser. ii. 146 He drew himself up to attention, and performed the lance exercise.

1879 H. Hartigan Stray Leaves ser. ii. 181 The old man was standing at attention.

1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka xxi. 259 A trooper..stood to attention at the horse's head.

1893 St. Nicholas Mag. Jan. 182/1 He..stood attention respectfully.

1895 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 633 He..saluted, and stood at attention.

1896 H. S. Merriman Sowers ix The..keepers..standing stiffly to attention.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 8 Make the patient ‘stand attention’.

Compounds

As a modifier.

ΚΠ

1898 E. B. Titchener Primer Psychol. v. 88 The attention-wave rises and falls at short intervals: attention fluctuates.

1901 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. ii. viii. 197 The attention period (the time-interval from maximum to maximum of sensation).

1901 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. ii. viii. 198 A continuous attention-strain.

1902 W. James Let. 20 Apr. (1920) II. 164 It is an uplifting thought that truth is to be told at last in a radical and attention-compelling manner.

1934 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 5 313 Results which present conflicting records of the attention-spans of the subjects observed.

1949 Mind 58 125 The book is written with grace and humour, and in an attention-holding way.

1964 L. S. Hultzén in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 90 Attention-calling modifications tend to occur.

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attention-seeker n. a person who deliberately seeks to draw attention to himself or herself, often by means of disruptive or excessively extrovert behaviour.

ΚΠ

1910 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. x3 Nothing is so disgusting to the people worth knowing as the girl who plays for notice. She might as well label herself ‘attention seeker’, for no one is fooled as to her actions.

1964 J. Kerouac Let. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 377 Now that we're all getting to be middleaged I can see that they're just frustrated hysterical provocateurs and attention-seekers with nothing on their mind but rancor toward ‘America’.

2011 S. Kelman Pigeon Eng. 179 Whatever she thinks she knows, she don't know shit. She's just an attention-seeker, that's all she is.

Draft additions 1993

attention-seeking n. the action or process of deliberately seeking to draw attention to oneself; also as adj., that seeks attention or notoriety.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > attempt to attract attention

nudging1796

attention-seeking1961

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [adjective] > seeking attention

grandstanding1908

attention-seeking1961

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > action or process of seeking attention

showboating1937

attention-seeking1961

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] > seeking attention

attention-seeking1961

1961 Educ. of Children with Handicaps (16th Yearbk. Ontario School Inspectors' Assoc.) 183 In summary, negativism may be mere attention-seeking, or it may be a pathological symptom of serious proportion.

1965 M. Morse Unattached v. 184 She began to develop more honest relationships and her attention-seeking behaviour began to ease up.

1986 City Limits 12 June 61 The complex relationship between predator and victim shows how rape is more than the cry of attention-seeking females.

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attention-getter n. something that attracts, or is designed to attract, attention.

ΚΠ

1914 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 12 Aug. 3/2 Their act is an attention getter from start to finish.

1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 36 Why the violin?.. Just an attention-getter. Nowadays you got to dramatize yourself.

2011 B. Doyle C# Programming (ed. 3) i. 9 You can use color as an attention getter, but do not abuse it.

Draft additions September 2013

attention-getting adj. that attracts, or is designed to attract, attention.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [adjective]

catching?a1430

vive1528

fascinating1618

affecting1665

amusing1695

uptaking1737

striking1752

interesting1768

arresting1792

frappant1797

riveting1800

engrossing1820

enchaining1823

arrestive1834

alive1844

vivid1853

seizing1865

absorptive1881

absorbative1893

gripping1896

intriguing1909

attention-getting1917

grippy1921

head-turning1938

gimmicky1957

compulsive1961

spellbinding1978

stunty1981

1917 San Antonia (Texas) Light 18 Nov. 2/1 We are specialists in attention-getting literature.

1945 C. V. Good Dict. Educ. 171/2 Finger-play, a dramatization of a verse or poem with..finger movements, used as an attention-getting device with young children.

2011 J. Petz Boring Meetings Suck 120 Don't use..extreme fonts except in a large header or for a two-word attention-getting line.

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attention-grabber n. something which (or occasionally someone who) grabs attention; cf. attention-getter n. at Additions.

ΚΠ

1932 Pop. Mech. Sept. 23 a Actual photograph ‘attention grabbers’.

1973 Gramophone Sept. 583/1 [The] exhibitors..made four-channel sound..the show's attention grabber.

1994 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 6 Feb. 48/2 The hand-built Suzuki Spry,..one of the attention-grabbers at the Brisbane International Motor Show.

2008 S. Toltz Fraction of Whole i. 149 Marty, your brother is an attention-grabber.

Draft additions September 2013

attention-grabbing adj. that attracts and holds attention; compelling; cf. attention-getting adj. at Additions.

ΚΠ

1977 Washington Post 1 Oct. a1 The most emotional and attention-grabbing issue to come along so far in the Carter years.

2003 D. Kellner Media Spectacle i. 2 Those attention-grabbing occurrences that we call news.

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attention deficit n. Psychology and Psychiatry a deficiency in attentiveness, typically manifesting as a restricted attention span; inability to pay attention or concentrate.

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1959 D. Zeaman & B. J. House Training School Bull. Aug. 62 A theory of attention..holds that these institutionalized subjects are not as much retarded in learning ability..as they are in ability to direct and maintain attention... Several special training techniques..have been found useful in compensating for this attention deficit.

1967 Amer. Jrnl. Mental Deficiency 71 136 The superiority of nonreward could be predicted from a theory of inhibitory deficit rather than attention deficit.

1974 Jrnl. Learning Disabilities Nov. 560/1 Twenty-one experimental studies of attention deficits in children were reviewed.

1997 J. J. Ratey & C. Johnson Shadow Syndromes v. 186 As she saw more clearly how her attention deficit had thwarted her life's ambition of becoming a writer, she began to understand her depression as a reasonable response to a hidden handicap.

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attention deficit disorder n. Psychiatry (originally U.S.) any behavioural disorder (usually of a child or adolescent) that is characterized by a marked degree of distractibility and often impulsivity and is not considered to be a sign of another disorder; (more widely) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (though in clinical use the two terms are specifically distinguished); abbreviated ADD; also called minimal brain dysfunction.

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1971 R. A. Dykman et al. in H. R. Myklebust Progress in Learning Disabilities ii. iii. 56 (heading) Specific learning disabilities: an attentional deficit syndrome.]

1975 First Rep. Preliminary Findings Interagency Collaborative Group on Hyperkinesis F 5 The working revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-III) changed the emphasis on hyperactivity per se,..to attentional deficits as the central component of this disorder; c.s. attention deficit disorder (314.00) with or without hyperactivity.

1989 J. A. B. Collier & J. M. Longmore Oxf. Handbk. Clin. Specialties (ed. 2) iii. 206 If there is also excessive inattention, poor concentration at school and impulsivity, the wider term attention deficit disorder or minimal brain dysfunction is used by some workers—provided the cause is not psychosis or an affective disorder.

1995 Scotl. on Sunday 22 Oct. 6/1 The symptoms are some of the characteristics of attention deficit disorder—ADD—a condition which is either a fancy, mumbo-jumbo American excuse for parental failure or the real reason so many young people underachieve at school.

2001 Internat. Herald Tribune (Paris) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 9 The American government's representative on the board cited the ‘medicalization’ of social problems and a tendency to treat symptoms of conditions such as obesity or attention deficit disorders, and not what might be their underlying causes.

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attention deficit hyperactivity disorder n. Psychiatry (originally U.S.) a behavioural disorder in which the predominant features are distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity, typically beginning in early childhood and often persisting into adulthood, and usually affecting school performance most severely though also manifesting itself in work and social situations; abbreviated ADHD; cf. attention deficit disorder n. at Additions.

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1978 D. P. Cantwell & G. A. Carlson in J. S. Werry Pediatric Psychopharmacol. vi. 207 The usefulness of the catecholaminic stimulants in psychiatric disorders other than Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity is unproven.]

1987 Diagnostic & Statist. Man. Mental Disorders (Amer. Psychiatric Assoc.) (rev. ed.) 50 Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)... The essential features of this disorder are developmentally inappropriate degrees of inattention, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity.

1996 New Scientist 9 Mar. 7/1 The number of American children taking Ritalin to control the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder..is rocketing.

2000 Brit. Jrnl. Gen. Practice 50 201/2 The differences between the broader American concept of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the narrower European concept of hyperkinesis caused particular confusion.

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attention span n. the breadth of attention, measured by the number of items that a person can perceive in or reproduce after a single presentation (cf. span n.¹ 5c) (chiefly Psychology); (more generally) the length of time a person can attend continuously to one type of stimulus (as a single subject, activity, etc.); (often modified) the capacity for sustained concentration.

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1904 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 614 The subjects were tested with regard to memory, practice.., attention and effort.., attention span, and a domino discrimination test.

1934 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 5 313 Results which present conflicting records of the attention-spans of the subjects observed.

1959 J. D. MacDonald Please write for Details i. 8 She had that unfortunate blend of characteristics which combines a capacity for intense enthusiasm with a curiously short attention span.

1987 K. Gibbons Ellen Foster (1988) xii. 96 He does not have an attention span and..my new mama will rock him and read a bear or rabbit story to him and he will be still.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Feb. 39/2 The audience out there could be assumed to have the attention span of caddis flies.

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单词	attention
释义	attentionn. Brit. /əˈtɛnʃn/, U.S. /əˈtɛn(t)ʃən/ Etymology: < Latin attentiōn-em, noun of action < attendĕre to attend v. Used by Chaucer in translating from Latin, then not found till c1600; not in French till 16th cent. 1. a. The action, fact, or state of attending or giving heed; earnest direction of the mind, consideration, or regard; esp. in to pay or give attention. The mental power or faculty of attending; esp. with attract, call, draw, arrest, fix, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > [noun] gomec1175 thoughtc1175 tenta1300 curec1300 intentc1320 keepa1325 heed1357 attendancec1374 attentionc1374 aspect1393 marka1400 notea1400 advertencea1413 markingc1443 regard1457 advertisementc1487 noticec1487 attent?a1500 advertation?c1500 respect1509 garda1569 intendiment1590 on-waiting1590 attend1594 tendment1597 attending1611 fixationa1631 adversion1642 heeding1678 attendancya1680 perpensity1704 observe1805 intending1876 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. i. 29 After þat she hadde gadred..myn attencioun she seide þus. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 6 The tongues of dying men, Inforce attention . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 618 Attention held them mute. View more context for this quotation 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlix. 183 The attention I should have paid to your failings. 1871 S. Smiles Character i. 21 They still arrest the attention. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein III. 478 He marked with attention all that appeared from other pens. b. metaphorical. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xix. 111 When the Ideas that offer themselves,..are taken notice of, and, as it were, registred in the Memory, it is Attention. 1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. III. App. 396 Attention is that state of mind which prepares a man to receive impressions. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxx. 136 Attention is the voluntary direction of the mind upon an object, with the intention of fully apprehending it. 2. Practical consideration, observant care, notice. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] yemec893 carefulnessa1000 getec1175 gomec1175 tenta1300 curec1300 keepa1325 diligence1340 heed1357 tentivenessa1382 observancec1390 businessa1398 reasona1398 attendancec1400 resporta1413 curiosityc1430 mindingc1449 reckc1475 respect1509 regardshipa1513 looking unto1525 peradvertencea1529 looking toa1535 solicitudea1535 looking after?1537 solicitudeness1547 care1548 solicitnessc1550 caring1556 heedfulness1561 solicitateness1562 hofulness1566 regard1573 charishness1587 on-waiting1590 heediness1596 take-heed1596 respectiveness1598 observationa1616 solicitousness1636 heeding1678 curiousness1690 solicitation1693 attention1741 craftsmanship1850 1741 Ld. Chesterfield Let. Aug. (1932) (modernized text) II. 471 They have attention to everything, and always mind what they are about. 1816 F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. ii. xv. 775 (note) To soften the rude manners of an uncultivated people by a benignant attention to their morals. 1882 Daily Tel. 4 May [Markets] Oats met with a moderate amount of attention at Monday's prices. 3. a. The action of attending to the comfort and pleasure of others; ceremonious politeness, courtesy. Often in plural spec. to pay attention or one's attention to: to court. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > pay amorous attention to [verb] to make or pay (one's) court to1716 attention1752 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > studious care or diligence > diligence in service diligence1493 officiousness1596 assiduity1641 assidencea1656 attention1752 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] gentilessea1413 courtesya1475 humanitya1533 urbanities1630 courtship1631 civility1645 gallantry1673 complaisance1710 politeness1720 complacency1749 attention1752 customary1756 sensibility1795 personality1811 amenity1826 suavities1852 1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 July (1932) (modernized text) V. 1913 Nice and scrupulous, in points of ceremony, respect, and attention. 1774 Ld. Chesterfield Lett. to Son I. 96 A well-bred man..takes care that his attentions for you be not troublesome. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ii. 31 To ‘pay attention,’ as they say, to some young lady. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. ii. 48 Philip received all the attentions which an elegant hospitality could devise. b. More widely: the action of taking special notice of a person, whether favourable or unfavourable. Often plural euphemistically. ΚΠ 1771 Town & Country Mag. Jan. 12/1 The particular attention paid to her by a certain northern potentate. 1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter ii. viii To shield her from the attentions of the thoughtless or the vicious. 1920 R. Macaulay Potterism v. § 4. 187 An egotistic craving for attention, even unfavourable attention. 1929 Morning Post 26 Mar. 14/5 By submitting to the attentions of a Roman officer. †4. A matter of attention, a consideration. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > worthy of notice notabilityc1390 notables1484 bumming sound1598 grandee1622 observable1639 remarkable1639 observanda1663 remark1675 observation1736 crowning glory1780 attentiona1806 notabilia1849 day1918 one for the (end) books (also book)1922 a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 156 Distances, lines, angles, and other mechanical, subordinate attentions. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 185 The chiaroscuro and the other attentions of the composition should be calculated. 5. a. ‘A cautionary word used as a preparative to any particular exercise or manœuvre.’ C. James Mil. Dict. to come to attention: to assume a prepared military attitude; so to stand at attention. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > orders > [noun] > word of command > preliminary attention1792 caution1796 tention1908 society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (intransitive)] > stand to attention to stand shouldered1811 to draw oneself up, spring, etc., to attention1859 to come to attention1870 1792 Rules & Regulations for Formations His Majesty’s Forces 6 Upon the word Attention, no one shall have materially lost his dressing in the line. 1792 Rules & Regulations His Majesty's Forces i. 6 On the word, Attention, the hands are to fall smartly down the outside of the thighs; the right heel to be brought up in a line with the left; and the proper unconstrained position of a soldier..resumed. 1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxvii. 45 He attention's look display'd As he was wont on war's parade. 1870 Daily News 1 Oct. Yonder sergeant of Zouaves..comes promptly to attention when an officer addresses him. b. to stand (at, to) attention: to stand in the military attitude assumed at the word of command ‘Attention!’ Also to draw oneself up, spring, etc., to attention. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (intransitive)] > stand to attention to stand shouldered1811 to draw oneself up, spring, etc., to attention1859 to come to attention1870 1859 G. J. Whyte-Melville Holmby House (1860) xviii. 276 He..stood gaunt and dripping at ‘attention’. 1866 G. J. Whyte-Melville Cerise (ed. 3) I. i. 11 Like a soldier who springs to ‘attention’. 1879 H. Hartigan Stray Leaves ser. ii. 146 He drew himself up to attention, and performed the lance exercise. 1879 H. Hartigan Stray Leaves ser. ii. 181 The old man was standing at attention. 1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka xxi. 259 A trooper..stood to attention at the horse's head. 1893 St. Nicholas Mag. Jan. 182/1 He..stood attention respectfully. 1895 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 633 He..saluted, and stood at attention. 1896 H. S. Merriman Sowers ix The..keepers..standing stiffly to attention. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 8 Make the patient ‘stand attention’. Compounds As a modifier. ΚΠ 1898 E. B. Titchener Primer Psychol. v. 88 The attention-wave rises and falls at short intervals: attention fluctuates. 1901 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. ii. viii. 197 The attention period (the time-interval from maximum to maximum of sensation). 1901 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. ii. viii. 198 A continuous attention-strain. 1902 W. James Let. 20 Apr. (1920) II. 164 It is an uplifting thought that truth is to be told at last in a radical and attention-compelling manner. 1934 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 5 313 Results which present conflicting records of the attention-spans of the subjects observed. 1949 Mind 58 125 The book is written with grace and humour, and in an attention-holding way. 1964 L. S. Hultzén in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 90 Attention-calling modifications tend to occur. Draft additions June 2016 attention-seeker n. a person who deliberately seeks to draw attention to himself or herself, often by means of disruptive or excessively extrovert behaviour. ΚΠ 1910 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. x3 Nothing is so disgusting to the people worth knowing as the girl who plays for notice. She might as well label herself ‘attention seeker’, for no one is fooled as to her actions. 1964 J. Kerouac Let. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 377 Now that we're all getting to be middleaged I can see that they're just frustrated hysterical provocateurs and attention-seekers with nothing on their mind but rancor toward ‘America’. 2011 S. Kelman Pigeon Eng. 179 Whatever she thinks she knows, she don't know shit. She's just an attention-seeker, that's all she is. Draft additions 1993 attention-seeking n. the action or process of deliberately seeking to draw attention to oneself; also as adj., that seeks attention or notoriety. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > attempt to attract attention nudging1796 attention-seeking1961 the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [adjective] > seeking attention grandstanding1908 attention-seeking1961 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > action or process of seeking attention showboating1937 attention-seeking1961 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] > seeking attention attention-seeking1961 1961 Educ. of Children with Handicaps (16th Yearbk. Ontario School Inspectors' Assoc.) 183 In summary, negativism may be mere attention-seeking, or it may be a pathological symptom of serious proportion. 1965 M. Morse Unattached v. 184 She began to develop more honest relationships and her attention-seeking behaviour began to ease up. 1986 City Limits 12 June 61 The complex relationship between predator and victim shows how rape is more than the cry of attention-seeking females. Draft additions September 2013 attention-getter n. something that attracts, or is designed to attract, attention. ΚΠ 1914 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 12 Aug. 3/2 Their act is an attention getter from start to finish. 1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 36 Why the violin?.. Just an attention-getter. Nowadays you got to dramatize yourself. 2011 B. Doyle C# Programming (ed. 3) i. 9 You can use color as an attention getter, but do not abuse it. Draft additions September 2013 attention-getting adj. that attracts, or is designed to attract, attention. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [adjective] catching?a1430 vive1528 fascinating1618 affecting1665 amusing1695 uptaking1737 striking1752 interesting1768 arresting1792 frappant1797 riveting1800 engrossing1820 enchaining1823 arrestive1834 alive1844 vivid1853 seizing1865 absorptive1881 absorbative1893 gripping1896 intriguing1909 attention-getting1917 grippy1921 head-turning1938 gimmicky1957 compulsive1961 spellbinding1978 stunty1981 1917 San Antonia (Texas) Light 18 Nov. 2/1 We are specialists in attention-getting literature. 1945 C. V. Good Dict. Educ. 171/2 Finger-play, a dramatization of a verse or poem with..finger movements, used as an attention-getting device with young children. 2011 J. Petz Boring Meetings Suck 120 Don't use..extreme fonts except in a large header or for a two-word attention-getting line. Draft additions September 2013 attention-grabber n. something which (or occasionally someone who) grabs attention; cf. attention-getter n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1932 Pop. Mech. Sept. 23 a Actual photograph ‘attention grabbers’. 1973 Gramophone Sept. 583/1 [The] exhibitors..made four-channel sound..the show's attention grabber. 1994 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 6 Feb. 48/2 The hand-built Suzuki Spry,..one of the attention-grabbers at the Brisbane International Motor Show. 2008 S. Toltz Fraction of Whole i. 149 Marty, your brother is an attention-grabber. Draft additions September 2013 attention-grabbing adj. that attracts and holds attention; compelling; cf. attention-getting adj. at Additions. ΚΠ 1977 Washington Post 1 Oct. a1 The most emotional and attention-grabbing issue to come along so far in the Carter years. 2003 D. Kellner Media Spectacle i. 2 Those attention-grabbing occurrences that we call news. Draft additions May 2001 attention deficit n. Psychology and Psychiatry a deficiency in attentiveness, typically manifesting as a restricted attention span; inability to pay attention or concentrate. ΚΠ 1959 D. Zeaman & B. J. House Training School Bull. Aug. 62 A theory of attention..holds that these institutionalized subjects are not as much retarded in learning ability..as they are in ability to direct and maintain attention... Several special training techniques..have been found useful in compensating for this attention deficit. 1967 Amer. Jrnl. Mental Deficiency 71 136 The superiority of nonreward could be predicted from a theory of inhibitory deficit rather than attention deficit. 1974 Jrnl. Learning Disabilities Nov. 560/1 Twenty-one experimental studies of attention deficits in children were reviewed. 1997 J. J. Ratey & C. Johnson Shadow Syndromes v. 186 As she saw more clearly how her attention deficit had thwarted her life's ambition of becoming a writer, she began to understand her depression as a reasonable response to a hidden handicap. Draft additions May 2001 attention deficit disorder n. Psychiatry (originally U.S.) any behavioural disorder (usually of a child or adolescent) that is characterized by a marked degree of distractibility and often impulsivity and is not considered to be a sign of another disorder; (more widely) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (though in clinical use the two terms are specifically distinguished); abbreviated ADD; also called minimal brain dysfunction. ΚΠ 1971 R. A. Dykman et al. in H. R. Myklebust Progress in Learning Disabilities ii. iii. 56 (heading) Specific learning disabilities: an attentional deficit syndrome.] 1975 First Rep. Preliminary Findings Interagency Collaborative Group on Hyperkinesis F 5 The working revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-III) changed the emphasis on hyperactivity per se,..to attentional deficits as the central component of this disorder; c.s. attention deficit disorder (314.00) with or without hyperactivity. 1989 J. A. B. Collier & J. M. Longmore Oxf. Handbk. Clin. Specialties (ed. 2) iii. 206 If there is also excessive inattention, poor concentration at school and impulsivity, the wider term attention deficit disorder or minimal brain dysfunction is used by some workers—provided the cause is not psychosis or an affective disorder. 1995 Scotl. on Sunday 22 Oct. 6/1 The symptoms are some of the characteristics of attention deficit disorder—ADD—a condition which is either a fancy, mumbo-jumbo American excuse for parental failure or the real reason so many young people underachieve at school. 2001 Internat. Herald Tribune (Paris) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 9 The American government's representative on the board cited the ‘medicalization’ of social problems and a tendency to treat symptoms of conditions such as obesity or attention deficit disorders, and not what might be their underlying causes. Draft additions May 2001 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder n. Psychiatry (originally U.S.) a behavioural disorder in which the predominant features are distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity, typically beginning in early childhood and often persisting into adulthood, and usually affecting school performance most severely though also manifesting itself in work and social situations; abbreviated ADHD; cf. attention deficit disorder n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1978 D. P. Cantwell & G. A. Carlson in J. S. Werry Pediatric Psychopharmacol. vi. 207 The usefulness of the catecholaminic stimulants in psychiatric disorders other than Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity is unproven.] 1987 Diagnostic & Statist. Man. Mental Disorders (Amer. Psychiatric Assoc.) (rev. ed.) 50 Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)... The essential features of this disorder are developmentally inappropriate degrees of inattention, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity. 1996 New Scientist 9 Mar. 7/1 The number of American children taking Ritalin to control the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder..is rocketing. 2000 Brit. Jrnl. Gen. Practice 50 201/2 The differences between the broader American concept of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the narrower European concept of hyperkinesis caused particular confusion. Draft additions May 2001 attention span n. the breadth of attention, measured by the number of items that a person can perceive in or reproduce after a single presentation (cf. span n.¹ 5c) (chiefly Psychology); (more generally) the length of time a person can attend continuously to one type of stimulus (as a single subject, activity, etc.); (often modified) the capacity for sustained concentration. ΚΠ 1904 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 614 The subjects were tested with regard to memory, practice.., attention and effort.., attention span, and a domino discrimination test. 1934 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 5 313 Results which present conflicting records of the attention-spans of the subjects observed. 1959 J. D. MacDonald Please write for Details i. 8 She had that unfortunate blend of characteristics which combines a capacity for intense enthusiasm with a curiously short attention span. 1987 K. Gibbons Ellen Foster (1988) xii. 96 He does not have an attention span and..my new mama will rock him and read a bear or rabbit story to him and he will be still. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Feb. 39/2 The audience out there could be assumed to have the attention span of caddis flies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1374
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