Sedulous vs Attentive - What's the difference?
sedulous | attentive | Related terms |
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:
* 2010 Paul Routledge , Daily Mirror , 9 March 2010 [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotland-is-turning-into-another-country-loch-756030]:
paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely
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)- 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.
- The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already.
Synonyms
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* * *attentive
English
Etymology
.Adjective
(en adjective)- She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.