attention

Plural: attentions

Noun

• the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
• the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
  • "the old car needs constant attention"
• a general interest that leads people to want to know more
  • "She was the center of attention"
• a courteous act indicating affection
  • "she tried to win his heart with her many attentions"
• the faculty or power of mental concentration
  • "keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention"
• a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review
  • "the troops stood at attention"
• Mental focus.
• An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
• A state of alertness in the standing position.
• A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between tokens from two (or more) input sequences in order to compute the required output.

Intj

• Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
• A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.

Examples

• Please direct your attention to the following words.
• The company will now come to attention.

Synonyms

aid, attending, care, tending, advertence, advertency, attention, consideration, heed, heedfulness, mark, note, notice, observance, observation, reflection, regard

Antonyms

inattention, apathy, neglect, oversight

Related Words

attentive, heads up!, notable, pay attention, ponder