Word Meanings - INTENTIVENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Closeness of attention or application of mind; attentiveness. W. Montagu.

APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
CLOSENESS
The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison. Syn.
ATTENTION
1. The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the
REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
BEAUMONTAGUE
A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
NONATTENTION
Inattention.
MISAPPLICATION
A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
INAPPLICATION
Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.
INATTENTION
Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope. Syn. -- Inadvertence; heedlessness; negligence; carelessness; disregard; remissness;