(pawl.ee.uh.TEN.tiv.nus)
n.
The ability to watch or listen carefully to more than one thing at a time.
Example Citation:
Though she claims to disdain the academic life, she seems to fall back on jargon such as 'polyattentiveness' and 'plebianized' when she doesn't have anything of significance to say.
—Margaret Quamme, "Syrup Ruins Mix of Sontag's Ideas," The Columbus Dispatch, November 11, 2001
—Margaret Quamme, "Syrup Ruins Mix of Sontag's Ideas," The Columbus Dispatch, November 11, 2001
Earliest Citation:
Or we may cultivate a skill John Cage calls "polyattentiveness" — the simultaneous apprehension of two or more unrelated phenomena.
—Marshall Cohen, "What is dance?," Oxford University Press, April 7, 1983
—Marshall Cohen, "What is dance?," Oxford University Press, April 7, 1983
Related Words:
attention economics
attentional blink
BlackBerry prayer
busy brain
continuous partial attention
multi-skilling
attentional blink
BlackBerry prayer
busy brain
continuous partial attention
multi-skilling
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