attentional
attentional adjective: of or pertaining to attention.
Adjective
attentional (comparative more attentional, superlative most attentional)
- Of or pertaining to attention.
- The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to.2025 September 7, Ezra Klein, “Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025
Forms of attentional
| comparative | more attentional |
|---|---|
| superlative | most attentional |
Origin of attentional
From attention + -al.
Words formed from attentional
- attentional bias
- attentional blink
- attentional focus
- attentionally
- attentional operator
- attentional shift
- attentional style
- attentional wastage
Questions about attentional
- What does attentional mean?
- Attentional means of or pertaining to attention.
- What part of speech is attentional?
- Attentional is an adjective.
Words near attentional in the dictionary
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