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Sedulous vs Attentive - What's the difference?

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Sedulous is a related term of attentive.


As adjectives the difference between sedulous and attentive

is that sedulous is diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous while attentive is paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

sedulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.
  • * 2001 Pollan, Michael , The Botany of Desire , Random House, New York, page 135:
  • With the right equipment, an indoor grower could create a utopia for his plants, an artificial habitat more perfect than any in nature, [...]. These sedulous attentions would be wasted on male plants, which are worse than useless in sinsemilla production.
  • * 2010 Paul Routledge , Daily Mirror , 9 March 2010 [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotland-is-turning-into-another-country-loch-756030]:
  • The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    attentive

    English

    Etymology

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely
  • She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.

    Synonyms

    * reckful

    Antonyms

    * inattentive, reckless

    See also

    * alert * wary * watchful

    Anagrams

    * tentative ----