mindfulness

mindfulness

English

Etymology

mindful +‎ -ness

Noun

mindfulness (countable and uncountable, plural mindfulnesses)

1. Awareness.
2. Inclination to be mindful or aware.
3. (Buddhism, psychology) Paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally.
4. A form of secular meditation practice with roots in Buddhist meditation.
   • 2013 November 1, David Hochman, “Mindfulness: Getting Its Share of Attention”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist leader who introduced mindfulness to Westerners (Google got first dibs on him as a guest speaker), once said, “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.”

   • 2014 June 30, Anna North, “The Mindfulness Backlash”, in New York Times Op-Talk‎:

     This vogue is in part due to the real benefits of mindfulness, a form of attention and awareness often (but not always) achieved through meditation or yoga. It’s a trend for a reason. But its increasing application to every situation under the sun has some people concerned.

Antonyms

• mindlessness

Translations

awareness — see awareness

inclination to be mindful or aware

Chinese: Mandarin: 注意 (zh) (zhùyì), 留意 (zh) (liúyì), (in Buddhism and psychology) 正念 (zhèngniàn) Finnish: läsnäolevuus Greek: επιμέλεια (el) f (epiméleia), φροντίδα (el) f (frontída) Hungarian: figyelmesség (hu), gondosság (hu) Macedonian: внима́телност f (vnimátelnost) Polish: uważność (pl) f Russian: внима́тельность (ru) f (vnimátelʹnostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: pomnost (sh) f Swedish: omtänksamhet (sv) c, vakenhet c, uppmärksamhet (sv) c

paying attention on purpose in the present moment

Chinese: Mandarin: (in Buddhism and psychology) 正念 (zhèngniàn) Finnish: tietoinen läsnäolo French: pleine conscience f German: Achtsamkeit (de) f Hungarian: éber tudatosság, tudatos jelenlét, éber figyelem, tudatosság (hu) Macedonian: внима́телност f (vnimátelnost) Polish: uważność (pl) f Russian: внима́тельность (ru) f (vnimátelʹnostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: usredotočena svjesnost f, majndfulnes m, usmjerena pažnja f Spanish: atención plena f Swedish: medveten närvaro c, mindfulness Tigrinya: ምሉእ ኣቓልቦ (məluʾ ʾaḳʰalbo), ምሉእ ሕልና (məluʾ ḥəlna), ምሉእ ንቕሓተ-ሕልና (məluʾ nəḳʰḥatä-ḥəlna)

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mindfulness.

Noun

mindfulness f (invariable)

1. (psychology, neologism) mindfulness

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Spanish

Noun

mindfulness m (uncountable)

1. mindfulness