mindful

comparative more mindful · superlative most mindful · alternative obsolete mindefull · alternative obsolete mindfull

1. aware (of something); attentive, heedful.First known use 14th c.

   Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.

   2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport

   Antonyms: absent-minded, mindless, seat-of-the-pants, unmindful

2. Of or pertaining to mindfulness; sustaining meta-attention of the contents of one's own mind in the present moment.

   I think being mindful may help you to appreciate life more.

3. obsoleteInclined (to do something).First known use 16th–19th c.

   These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

plural mindfuls · alternative obsolete mindefull · alternative obsolete mindfull

1. As much as can be held in one's mind at a time.

   So, whereas mouthfuls and servings are the units of fullness, mindfuls and savorings are the units of mind-fullness.

   2008, Pavel G Somov, Eating the Moment

   2 more examples

   A work of art may exceed a 'mindful' – whatever it is that can be accommodated within a mind at a given time – and may have to be regarded as a series of mindfuls.

   1995, R. Tallis, Newton's Sleep: The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms

   A sketch can hold several mindfuls, allowing designers to see far more than they can imagine, allowing designers to integrate mindfuls.

   2014, Toshiharu Taura, Principia Designae - Pre-Design, Design, and Post-Design