ATTENTIVENESS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

attentiveness

noun

Definition of attentiveness

as in watchfulness

the state of being constantly attentive and responsive to signs of opportunity, activity, or danger your attentiveness prevented a potentially bad accident

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Recent Examples of attentiveness The opening up to the friendship with Renata, the attentiveness with Luis, and not being set on killing Negan are monumental changes for her. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Aug. 2026 Thanks to the controller’s attentiveness, a possible mid-air collision may have been prevented, especially if the pilots operating the individual planes thought the controller was giving them the same flight instructions. — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026 For instance, Sentry works with trucking clients to improve driver ergonomics to enhance attentiveness and focus, which Zernicke says is a high-return-on-investment for fleet operators. — Sentry Insurance, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Throughout the studies, participants also reported less daytime sleepiness, less frequent muscle weakness, and greater attentiveness. — Elaine Chen, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026 In Japan, this kind of attentiveness is understood through omotenashi. — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2026 Even in novels centered on Millennial inaction or stasis, such as Pond, by Claire-Louise Bennett, a kind of attentiveness is necessary to advance beyond rhetorical water-treading. — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 There’s an attentiveness to fellow-travellers who misread him, and a desire to understand what other people are looking for. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026 That attentiveness showed up in small ways throughout our stay. — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for attentiveness

Noun

For now, the consensus among Wall Street’s economists is less alarm than watchfulness.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
But the book’s ruminative watchfulness is unsuccessfully conjugated in this overly sedate play with music, which has the feel of a song cycle, though sung by the fine cast with gorgeous, lonely sorrow.

— Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 19 June 2026

Definition of watchfulness

Noun

To achieve this, the locus coeruleus continuously alternates between tonic activity—governing baseline arousal and alertness—and brief phasic bursts that focus attention on critical events.

— Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
During the campaign, candidates are in a state of constant alertness.

— Max Taves, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of alertness

Noun

Still, there’s a kind of hip, comfort food aspect to the entire enterprise that keeps it an easy, if slightly cluttered and overlong watch.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
In less time than that, the salesperson came back with my three watches and just gave them to me.

— Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of watch

Noun

In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States.

— Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Mental health can change quickly, so constant vigilance is important.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of vigilance

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