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disattentions

disattentions is the plural of disattention.

Meaning of disattention

Noun

disattention (countable and uncountable, plural disattentions)

  1. A lack of attention; a failure to pay attention.
    • The poem makes enormous demands: we are to be confronted with all our disattentions, with how small mind we pay to what is offered us.1984, William Heyen, The Generation of 2000: contemporary American poets, page 341

Questions about disattentions

What is disattentions the plural of?
Disattentions is the plural of disattention.

Words near disattentions in the dictionary

  1. disattachments
  2. disattend
  3. disattending
  4. disattends
  5. disattention
  6. disattentions
  7. disattenuate
  8. disattenuated
  9. disattenuating
  10. disattenuation
  11. disattenuations

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