Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

attentional

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English

Syllables: at-ten-tion-al
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to attention.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin attendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin attentiōbor. Middle English attencioun English attention English -al English attentional From attention + -al.

Inflected Forms

more attentional (comparative) most attentional (superlative)

Derived Forms

attentionally

Phrases

attentional bias attentional blink attentional focus attentional operator attentional shift attentional style attentional wastage

Questions

What does attentional mean?: Of or pertaining to attention.
Where does attentional come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *téndeti Proto-Italic *tendō Latin tendō Latin attendō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin attentiōbor. Middle English attencioun English attention English -al English attentional From attention + -al.

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