attention

Other forms of attention

plural

attentions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about attention

What does attention mean?

attention means "the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attention?

attention has 3 syllables: at-ten-tion. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /əˈtɛnʃən/.

What is another word for attention?

Close synonyms include attending, care, aid, tending. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of attention?

The recorded antonyms are inattention.

Is attention a common word?

attention is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with attention?

7 words rhyme with attention. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.