Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

meta-attention

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English

Syllables: meta-at-ten-tion
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Awareness and control of one's attentional processes.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It was also determined whether, given the assumption of the existence of such a pattern, meta-attention would be correlated with academic achievement."

Etymology

From meta- + attention.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does meta-attention mean?: Awareness and control of one's attentional processes.
Where does meta-attention come from?: From meta- + attention.

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