mindfulness

1. 1.

   the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities

   Synonymsheedfulness

   Antonymsunmindfulness

   Broaderattentiveness

Other forms of mindfulness

plural

mindfulnesses·

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 mindfulness

What does mindfulness mean?

mindfulness means "the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities".

How many syllables are in mindfulness?

mindfulness has 3 syllables: mind-ful-ness. The stress falls on "mind".

What is another word for mindfulness?

Close synonyms include heedfulness. 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 mindfulness?

The recorded antonyms are unmindfulness.

Is mindfulness a common word?

mindfulness 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.