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aˈttentiveness
[f. as prec. + -ness. Cf. the earlier ententiveness, tentiveness.]
The quality of being attentive; heed, attention.
1549Chaloner tr. Erasm. Moriæ Enc. E ij b, Vouchsafe me your eares and attentivenesse. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 31 To have held your attentiveness with new and quaint conceits. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 404 Polly heard me with more attentiveness than I expected. 1820Indicator 11 Oct. (1822) 6 Their..spirits carry them away from a proper attentiveness to others. 1921Contemp. Rev. Sept. 366 A wider degree of attentiveness involving eye, ear, and the gregarious instinct. |