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inattention

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in·at·ten·tion  (n-tnshn)
n.
Lack of attention, notice, or regard.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.inattention - lack of attention
basic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge
heedlessness, inattentiveness - a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)
distraction - an obstacle to attention
disregard, neglect - lack of attention and due care
attending, attention - the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
Translations
inattention [ɪnəˈtɛnʃən] ndesatención f
inattention [ɪnəˈtɛnʃən] nmanque m d'attention
inattention [ɪnəˈtɛnʃən] nUnaufmerksamkeit f
inattention [ɪnəˈtɛnʃən] nmancanza di attenzione


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She expresses a most eager desire of being acquainted with me, and makes very gracious mention of my children but I am not quite weak enough to suppose a woman who has behaved with inattention, if not with unkindness, to her own child, should be attached to any of mine.
He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children.
A concise review of the events that have attended confederate governments will further illustrate this important doctrine; an inattention to which has been the great source of our political mistakes, and has given our jealousy a direction to the wrong side.
 
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