attentiveness

1. 1.

   paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

   “his attentiveness to her wishes”

   “he spends without heed to the consequences”

   Synonymsheedregardpaying attention

   Antonymsinattentiveness

   Broaderattention

   Narroweradvertence
2. 2.

   the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others

   Broaderconsideration
3. 3.

   the trait of being observant and paying attention

   Antonymsinattentiveness

   Broadertrait

   Narrowercarefulnessmindfulnesscautionalertnesswatchfulnessunmindfulness

Other forms of attentiveness

plural

attentivenesses·

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 attentiveness

What does attentiveness mean?

attentiveness means "paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attentiveness?

attentiveness has 4 syllables: at-ten-tive-ness. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /əˈtɛntɪvnəs/.

What is another word for attentiveness?

Close synonyms include heed, regard, paying attention. 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 attentiveness?

The recorded antonyms are inattentiveness, inattentiveness.

Is attentiveness a common word?

attentiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.