Attitude vs Attention - What's the difference?
attitude | attention |
The position of the body or way of carrying oneself; posture.
Disposition or state of mind.
(uncountable, countable) A negative, irritating, or irritated attitude; posturing.
(aeronautics, nautical, engineering) The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon, direction of motion, other objects, etc.
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(ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.
* 2007 , Gayle Kassing, History of Dance: An Interactive Arts Approach ,
To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.
* 1823 , Felix M'Donogh, The Hermit Abroad , Volume 1,
* 1837 , William E. Burton, The Gentleman's Magazine , Volume 1,
* 1971 , , Advances in Astronautical Sciences , Volume 29, Part 2,
To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.
* 2002 , Wayne Normis, The Last Street Fighter ,
* 2008 , Yvonne Müller, "The Absentee": an Interpretation - an Analysis of Maria Edgeworth's Novel ,
* 2010 , R. Scott, Nine Months and a Year Later ,
(label) Mental focus.
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, title= (label) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
* 1818 , (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), (Frankenstein); or, the Modern Prometheus , ch. 3,
* 1910 , (Stephen Leacock), " ,
A state of alertness in the standing position.
As nouns the difference between attitude and attention
is that attitude is while attention is (label) mental focus.As an interjection attention is
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Noun
- The ballet dancer walked with a graceful attitude
- ... but had a lazy attitude to work.
- Don't give me your attitude .
- You've got some attitude , girl !
- The airliner had to land with a nose-up attitude after the incident.
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- Blasis was a man of many accomplishments. He invented the ballet position of attitude and codified the ballet technique of that time, distinguishing three types of dancers: the serious, the demi-caractère , and the comic dancer.
Synonyms
* stance * (position of vehicle etc) trim, orientationDerived terms
() * attitude-y * attitudinal * dickitude * tudeVerb
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- Attituded like an inspired curling-tongs, leaning back heavily on his right leg, and throwing forward his left, his arm elevated to a level with his shoulder, the clenched fist grasping a brush that might have been available in
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- The attituded control gyro package, electronics, APS gas supply, and the preentry electronics are mounted internally, and are distributed circumferentially at the major ring.
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- He attituded his way over to me, got up close, and just stood there looking at me, trying to appear threatening.
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- The typical characteristic attituded toward the English is coldness.
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- I was really tripping, 'cause this nigga had the nerve to be attituded up when he was the one always doing something he had no business doing.
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(wikipedia attention)Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
- She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
- For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.
