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INATTENTION

Pronunciation (US):

• INATTENTION (noun)
The noun INATTENTION has 1 sense:

1. lack of attention

Familiarity information: INATTENTION used as a noun is very rare.

• INATTENTION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Lack of attention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("inattention" is a kind of...):

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inattention"):

heedlessness; inattentiveness (a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people))

distraction (an obstacle to attention)

disregard; neglect (lack of attention and due care)

Antonym:

attention (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)

"All frills and no knickers."
(English proverb)
"Complete idiot who can keep silent, to a wise man is similar"
(Breton proverb)
"There's no place like home."
(American proverb)
"To make your neighbor jealous, go to bed early and get up early."
(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
inattentiveness definition
Definition of heedlessness
attention definition
Pronunciation of distraction
basic cognitive process definition

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