attentiveness

attentive | American Dictionary

attentive
adjective
us/əˈten·tɪv/
listening or watching carefully:
an attentive audience

attentively

adverbus/əˈten·tɪv·li/
The children listened attentively to the story.

Examples of attentive

attentive
The findings of this study underscore the imperative for mental health services to be attentive and responsive to consumer perceived need.
Being attentive to performativity means looking for ways that performance may expose ' truth' by disruption as well as complementarity.
Consequently, a broader crosssection of the public is attentive to foreign crises than in prior decades.
Through attentive listening and discussion, the clinician is able to ascertain these inner qualities.
Exploration existed within a tangle of pressures, obligations, and the demands of an attentive public.
Listeners were to be attentive and listen carefully to the stories in order to understand them, but they were not supposed to talk.
Of all the critics here, he is the most attentive to poetic form as having its own, moving agency.
Another gentleman felt that his doctor was attentive and took the time to help him feel at ease about the future.
Not only oncologists but also staff who participate in palliative care medicine should be attentive to possible adverse mental and behavioral reactions during antidepressant treatment.
The actor also keeps attentive to the breath.
However, attentive viewing of the television images reveals that few dancers move in this manner, and then only for a few seconds.
Evoked potential and behavioral signs of attentive dysfunctions in hyperactive boys.
They bring together and integrate diverse sources, they are attentive to the modes of art production, to the infrastructures without which ' art ' cannot exist.
While this possibility cannot be totally discounted without further study, there are some indications that children were quite attentive to function in our studies.
The performances are vivid and attentive to detail.
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