paying attention
Adjective
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Taking heed;
Giving close and thoughtful attention (synset 301198026)"heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"tells us about: attentiveness, heed, paying attention, regard - paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
Noun
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Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) (synset 105710673)
"his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"tells us about:
- heedless, unheeding - marked by or paying little heed or attention
- attentive, heedful, paying attention, thoughtful - taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
is a type of: attending, attention - the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of otherssubtypes: advertence, advertency - the process of being heedful
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