paying attention

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	paying attention - paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"attentiveness, heed, regardattending, attention - the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of othersadvertence, advertency - the process of being heedful
Adj.	1.	paying attention - taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"heedful, attentive, thoughtful