disattention

noun

disattention

noun

Etymology From dis- + attention.

1

A lack of attention; a failure to pay attention.

The poem makes enormous demands: we are to be confronted with all our disattentions, with how small mind we pay to what is offered us.1984, William Heyen, The Generation of 2000: contemporary American poets, page 341:

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