intentiveness
English
Etymology
intentive + -ness
Noun
intentiveness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Closeness of attention; attentiveness; concentration.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Montagu to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for intentiveness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)