Dictionary

attentional en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin attendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin attentiōbor. Middle English attencioun English attention English -al English attentional From attention + -al.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to attention.
   • The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to. 2025 September 7, Ezra Klein, “Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025:

Forms

Deriveds

attentionally · attentional shift · attentional blink · attentional style · attentional operator · attentional bias · attentional focus · attentional wastage

Translations (1)

fr attentionnel (Translations)