Noun

• S: (n) attention, attending (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)
• S: (n) care, attention, aid, tending (the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something) "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention"
• S: (n) attention (a general interest that leads people to want to know more) "She was the center of attention"
• S: (n) attention (a courteous act indicating affection) "she tried to win his heart with her many attentions"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) attention (the faculty or power of mental concentration) "keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) faculty, mental faculty, module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)
• S: (n) attention (the faculty or power of mental concentration) "keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention"
• S: (n) language, speech (the mental faculty or power of vocal communication) "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
• S: (n) memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity (the power of retaining and recalling past experience) "he had a good memory when he was younger"
• S: (n) reason, understanding, intellect (the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination) "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
• S: (n) sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended) "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"
• S: (n) volition, will (the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention) "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) attention (a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review) "the troops stood at attention"