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attention
- /əˈtɛn.ʃn̩/
Where it comes from
From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend. Equivalent to attend + -tion.
noun attentions
- Mental focus. Please direct your attention to the following words.
- An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest. She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
- A state of alertness in the standing position. The company will now come to attention.
- 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. The attention mechanism is an important part of these models and plays a very crucial role. Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.
Similar: advertence, advertency, attention, consideration, heed, heedfulness, mark, mind, note, notice, observance, observation, reflection, regard · Opposite: apathy, inattention, neglect, oversight
interjection
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: attending, aid, care, tending, concentration, emphasis, visibility, view, focused, sight, regard, sights, observation, notice, remark, observe
noun
Similar: advertence, advertency, attention, consideration, heed, heedfulness, mark, mind, note, notice, observance, observation, reflection, regard · Opposite: apathy, inattention, neglect, oversight
Translations
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noun mental focus
| Español | atención |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 주의 juui, 주목 jumok |
| 日本語 | 注意 chūi, 注目 chūmoku |
| 中文 | 注意 zhùyì |
| हिन्दी | ध्यान dhyān |
| Português | atenção |
| Français | attention |
| Deutsch | Aufmerksamkeit, Beachtung, Wachsamkeit, Attention |
| Italiano | attenzione |
| Ελληνικά | προσοχή prosochí |
| Română | atenție |
| Русский | внима́ние vnimánije, внима́тельность vnimátelʹnostʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | chú ý |
| العربية | اِهْتِمَام ihtimām, اِنْتِبَاه intibāh, تَوَجُّه tawajjuh |
| עברית | תְּשׂוּמַת לֵב t'sumát lev, קשב késhev |
noun romantic interest
| Español | atención |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 殷勤 yīnqín |
| हिन्दी | आकर्षण ākarṣaṇ |
| Português | atenção |
| Français | attention, attentions |
| Deutsch | Aufmerksamkeit |
| Ελληνικά | φροντίδα frontída, περιποίηση peripoíisi |
| Română | atenție |
| Русский | внима́ние vnimánije, уха́живания uxáživanija |
noun state of alertness in the standing position
| 日本語 | 気を付け ki o tsuke |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 立正 lìzhèng |
| हिन्दी | सावधान sāvdhān |
| Português | sentido |
| Français | attention, garde à vous |
| Deutsch | Achtung, Habachtstellung, Habtachtstellung |
| Italiano | allerta, sull'attenti, attenti |
| Ελληνικά | προσοχή prosochí |
| Română | drepți (poziție de drepți) |
| Русский | сто́йка «сми́рно» |
| עברית | הקשב hakshév |
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@misc{attention_2026,
title = {attention},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/attention},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
