Attentional Meaning
/əˈtɛnʃən/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf or pertaining to attention.
Sentence Examples
Attentional control is a cognitive skill.
The attentional blink experiment was fascinating.
The psychologist studied the attentional processes of children during learning tasks.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The study focused on the ____ mechanisms that filter irrelevant information.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The study looked at the ____ processes involved in reading a book.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ten- Proto-Indo-European *tend-der. 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 Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English attentional From attention + -al.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The study focused on the ____ mechanisms that filter irrelevant information.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The study looked at the ____ processes involved in reading a book.