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underattention

underattention noun: insufficient attention.

Noun

underattention (uncountable)

  1. Insufficient attention.
    • Underattention may derive from a lack of urgency on the leader's part, a sense that it is not crucial that the group come to grips with the feelings involved.1967, Richard Dewey Mann, Graham S. Gibbard, John Jacob Hartman, Interpersonal Styles and Group Development
    • Respondents do not pay enough attention to the ranges given, the differences between one end and the other of each dimension. Keeney (1992, p. 147) calls underattention to range “the most common critical mistake.”2006, Jonathan Baron, Thinking and Deciding, →ISBN, page 334

Origin of underattention

From under- + attention.

Questions about underattention

What does underattention mean?
Underattention means insufficient attention.
What part of speech is underattention?
Underattention is a noun.

Words near underattention in the dictionary

  1. underattend
  2. underattendance
  3. underattended
  4. underattending
  5. underattends
  6. underattention
  7. underattenuation
  8. underattribute
  9. underattributed
  10. underattributes
  11. underattributing

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