Attention
Attention noun - A focusing of the mind on something.
Feeling and attention are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Feeling" instead a noun "Attention".
Nearby Words: attentive, attentively
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| loving | loving attention | loving feeling |
| human | human attention | human feeling |
| good | good attention | good feeling |
| special | special attention | special feeling |
| Other adjectives: particular, better, similar, public, positive, due, romantic, real, constant, massive, great, little, bad, sexual, personal, new, incredible, negative, extra, sudden. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Losing his hero's attention and feeling distant to him, Boruto does everything to spend time with his father, even acting out just so he could be lectured by him.
Source: "Well Done, Son!" Guy - A particularly chilling example is Patricia Cornwell's The Body Farm, in which a teenage boy is murdered and a woman, instead of feeling sympathy for his parents, is jealous of the attention they get and thus kills her own daughter in order to get the same attention and sympathy.
Source: Munchausen Syndrome - The title character in Helen Cresswell's Ordinary Jack was pretending to be a prophet as an attention-getting gambit due to feeling unappreciated by his far less ordinary family.
Source: Fainting Seer
Cite this Source
Feeling and Attention. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/attention/feeling
Attention & Feeling. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/attention/feeling>.
Feeling or Attention. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/attention/feeling.
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