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attentive

adj
/əˈtɛntɪv/

Etymology

From Middle English attentif, attentijf, from Old French attentif.

  1. derived from attentif
  2. inherited from attentif

Definitions

  1. Paying attention

    Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

    • She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.
    • King-of-the-Sky was sitting alone in the Leeward Village meeting-house, gesticulating to the attentive shades of night, roaring out the genealogy of his ancestors, telling the sleeping world of his greatness.

  2. Courteous

    Courteous; mindful.

    • a husband attentive to his wife’s needs

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Derived

attentively, attentiveness, attentive public, attentivity, hyperattentive, nonattentive, overattentive, polyattentive, preattentive, unattentive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at attentive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at attentive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at attentive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA