disattention
English
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editdisattention (countable and uncountable, plural disattentions)
- Lack of attention; failure to pay attention.
- 1984, William Heyen, The Generation of 2000: contemporary American poets, page 341:
- 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.