Attentional

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to attention.

    "The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to attention wordnet

Synonyms

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orienting

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"The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to."

Etymology

From attention + -al.

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