underattend
verbEtymology From under- + attend.
1
To pay too little attention to.
- A few use more drugs than we wish to know; most are wonderful parents but some underattend to their children well beyond neglect.1998, Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth, Being Reflexive in Critical Educational and Social Research, →ISBN, page 20:
- Although temporal and spatial thinking are never really alternative to each other, I've consistently tried in Touching Feeling to push back against an occupational tendency to underattend to the rich dimension of space.2015, David A. Gerstner, Julien Nahmias, Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction, page 40: