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Definition of inattention in English: inattentionnoun ɪnəˈtɛnʃ(ə)nˌɪnəˈtɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n mass noun1Lack of attention; distraction. a moment of inattention which could have cost lives Example sentencesExamples - The most common fault, after inattention, is for drivers to follow too closely.
- What was a graceful and vibrant part of the city has become tired and tawdry as the ravages of time and inattention over the last 15 years have taken their toll.
- And many catastrophes follow from a moment of inattention.
- In the present case I think there was more than mere inadvertence or inattention.
- At work I've been making a few errors due to inattention.
Synonyms lack of concentration, distraction, inattentiveness, preoccupation, absent-mindedness, daydreaming, dreaminess, reverie, wool-gathering, abstraction, staring into space, obliviousness brown study informal brain fart negligence, neglect, neglectfulness, disregard, slackness, remissness, laxness forgetfulness, carelessness, thoughtlessness, heedlessness indifference, unconcern, inconsideration rare oscitation - 1.1 Failure to attend to one's responsibilities; negligence.
Example sentencesExamples - My inattention could have caused a serious injury or death.
- The city soon felt the pain of the government's inattention.
- Instead of throwing players out of practice for lack of effort or inattention to detail, he sends them into a workout room.
- It can only prey on offensive mistakes or inattention.
- The direct route tends to be blocked through inattention to detail, misunderstood directions, missed appointments.
- Your suggestion to come upstairs saved me from having to bark at the lad for his inattention.
- I read in the Wall Street Journal that a new "plague of inattention" is taking over.
- For readers unfamiliar with Brazilian geography this inattention will be confusing.
- Give me an example where for example, things have gone wrong with air crew, which are an example of this inattention to task.
- These girls parents failed them, either through inattention or condoning the abuse.
- A blog will thrive, live a banal life or just die from inattention.
- Treatment professionals could rationalize their inattention to difference by citing underutilization of treatment resources by many minority groups.
- The executive areas of the brain, which are responsible for your, oftentimes, inattention to detail.
- A benign endurance, a sort of affable inattention, settles like snow upon the landscape.
- In these cramped dock quarters, plants rarely suffer from inattention.
- He ran swiftly about from object to object, rapidly lecturing their inattention.
- At work I've been making a few errors due to inattention.
- A greater problem may be the relative inattention currently paid to the conceptual tools needed to shift gears to new forms of news delivery.
- Inattention, often linked to fatigue, is the most common cause of motorway accidents.
- We must not, by inattention, stoke the fires of resentment among our own population.
Definition of inattention in US English: inattentionnounˌinəˈten(t)SH(ə)nˌɪnəˈtɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n Lack of attention; distraction. a moment of inattention that could have cost lives Example sentencesExamples - At work I've been making a few errors due to inattention.
- What was a graceful and vibrant part of the city has become tired and tawdry as the ravages of time and inattention over the last 15 years have taken their toll.
- The most common fault, after inattention, is for drivers to follow too closely.
- In the present case I think there was more than mere inadvertence or inattention.
- And many catastrophes follow from a moment of inattention.
Synonyms lack of concentration, distraction, inattentiveness, preoccupation, absent-mindedness, daydreaming, dreaminess, reverie, wool-gathering, abstraction, staring into space, obliviousness negligence, neglect, neglectfulness, disregard, slackness, remissness, laxness |