disattend

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ attend.

Verb

disattend (third-person singular simple present disattends, present participle disattending, simple past and past participle disattended)

  1. To be distracted (from); used with to.
    • 2015 July 1, Lieke A. M. W. Wijnhoven et al., “The effect of the video game Mindlight on anxiety symptoms in children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder”, in BMC Psychiatry, volume 15, →DOI:
      More specifically, they learn to move towards, and quickly respond to, positive stimuli ( e.g., portraits of happy faces) and disattend to, or shift attention away from, negative stimuli (e.g., mean faces, threatening animals).