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Observant vs Attent - What's the difference?

observant | attent |

As a noun observant

is a member of a franciscan order that strictly observes the rules of st francis.

As an adjective attent is

(archaic) attentive, heedful; intent.

observant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Alert and paying close attention; watchful.
    • The observant police officer noticed that my tax disk was out-of-date.
  • Diligently attentive in observing a law, custom, duty or principle; regardful; mindful.
    • I was normally observant of the local parking restrictions.
  • * Sir K. Digby
    • We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle.

    Antonyms

    * introspective * nonobservant * unobservant

    Anagrams

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    attent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Attentive, heedful; intent.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.9:
  • *:Whylest thus he talkt, the knight with greedy eare / Hong still upon his melting mouth attent […].
  • * Bible, 2 Chron. vi 40
    • Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer.
  • * 1874 , , XIV
    • All patiently awaited the event
    Without a stir or sound, as if no less
    Self-occupied, doomstricken while attent .
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