aˈttentiveness
[f. as prec. + -ness. Cf. the earlier ententiveness, tentiveness.]
The quality of being attentive; heed, attention.
| 1549 Chaloner tr. Erasm. Moriæ Enc. E ij b, Vouchsafe me your eares and attentivenesse. a 1656 Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 31 To have held your attentiveness with new and quaint conceits. 1742 Richardson Pamela III. 404 Polly heard me with more attentiveness than I expected. 1820 Indicator 11 Oct. (1822) 6 Their..spirits carry them away from a proper attentiveness to others. 1921 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 366 A wider degree of attentiveness involving eye, ear, and the gregarious instinct. |