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underattend

verb

Etymology

From under- + attend.

  1. derived from attendō
  2. derived from atendre — “to await, wait for; to expect; to intend”
  3. inherited from attenden
  4. prefixed as underattend — “under + attend”

Definitions

  1. To pay too little attention to.

    • A few use more drugs than we wish to know; most are wonderful parents but some underattend to their children well beyond neglect.
    • Although temporal and spatial thinking are never really alternative to each other, I've consistently tried in Touching Feeling to push back against an occupational tendency to underattend to the rich dimension of space.

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