Meanings
adjectiveattentional (comparative more attentional, superlative most attentional)
comparative more attentional · superlative most attentional
- Of or pertaining to attention.
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.
2025 September 7, Ezra Klein, “Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*ten-
- Proto-Indo-European*tend-
- Proto-Indo-European*téndeti
- Proto-Italic*tendō
- Latintendō
- Latinattendō
- Latinattentiō
- Middle Englishattencioun
- Englishattention
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishattentional
Translations
French attentionnel
- attentionnelTranslations
Cite this entry
APA
attentional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attentional
MLA
“attentional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attentional. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “attentional,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attentional.
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