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disattention

noun

Etymology

From dis- + attention.

  1. derived from attentio
  2. inherited from attencioun
  3. prefixed as disattention — “dis + attention”

Definitions

  1. Lack of attention

    Lack of attention; failure to pay attention.

    • The poem makes enormous demands: we are to be confronted with all our disattentions, with how small mind we pay to what is offered us.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disattention. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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