Attention
Attention noun - A focusing of the mind on something.
Usage example: I need your full attention right now
Musing and attention are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Musing" instead a noun "Attention".
Nearby Words: attentive, attentively
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- thoughtfulness and attention
- thoughtfulness and musing
- consideration and attention
- consideration and musing
- thought and attention
- thought and musing
- study and attention
- study and musing
- concentration and attention
- concentration and musing
- imagination and attention
- imagination and musing
- observation and attention
- observation and musing
How words are described
| personal | personal attention | personal musing |
Both words in one sentence
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What's playing is ''Tosca, but she doesn't pay attention to it at all while Claes and Triela are back at the dormitory musing at what they think Rico and Henrietta's reactions would be if they were to see the whole opera and Claes even recites Tosca's Cry to God aria.
Source: At the Opera Tonight - The series normally seems to avoid calling attention to it except at odd moments; as when one of Honor Harrington's personal guard is musing that the Steadholder they're guarding is older than any of them... but looks like someone's teen sister.
Cite this Source
Musing and Attention. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/attention/musing
Attention & Musing. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/attention/musing>.
Musing or Attention. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/attention/musing.
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