attentions
Sayuh-TEN-shuhnz/əˈtɛn.ʃn̩z/
- 1Plural of attention.
His persistent attentions made her uncomfortable at the party.
The hostess divided her attentions among the many guests.
Note
Only one meaning of attention takes a plural: the countable one for acts or remarks that show interest in someone, especially romantic interest. Mental focus, the soldier's upright stance and the neural-network technique all stay uncountable. The usual verb is pay, as in John William Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), where someone "paid him attentions". In the plural the word often carries a hint of courtship.
attentions is a form of attention
attention, noun: Mental focus directed toward a particular thing or task. Full entry
- Forms
- attentionattentions plural
- Spelling
- attention → attentions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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