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Attentiveness   /ətˈɛntɪvnəs/   Listen
Attentiveness

noun
1.
Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).  Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard.  "He spends without heed to the consequences"
2.
The trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others.
3.
The trait of being observant and paying attention.





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"Attentiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... head, as an animal who scents something: "You think so?—An entire tone-poem?" The tone was alive with attentiveness. ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... adjoining room with Blanche, who there informed him artlessly of Crombie's consideration and attentiveness in restoring the errant shoes. When they came back Littimer insisted upon having the young man remain a little longer and drink a glass of port with him. Before taking his departure, however, Crombie, who felt free to speak since ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various
... counters blended with the light from high windows at the back, and here, on a platform at the head of the stairs, before a big table sat the Doge, in the majesty of a great patron of literature, with a clerk standing by in deftly-urging attentiveness. Mary and Jack paused at the foot of the stairs watching him. Gently he was fingering an old octavo; fingering it as one would who was between the hyperionic desire of possession and a fear that a bank account owed its solvency to keeping the amounts ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer


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