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Distraction
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What's The Definition Of Distraction?
[n] the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
[n] an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations [n] mental turmoil; "he drives me to distraction" [n] an obstacle to attention Synonyms | Synonyms for Distraction: beguilement Related Terms | Find terms related to Distraction: aberration | abnormality | absentmindedness | agitation | alienation | amusement | befuddlement | bewilderment | brain damage | brainsickness | carelessness | clouded mind | confusion | craziness | daftness | dementedness | dementia | derangement | disorder | disorientation | disregard | disregardfulness | dissipation | disturbance | diversion | divertissement | entertainment | flightiness | flippancy | folie | frivolousness | furor | giddiness | heedlessness | inadvertence | inadvertency | inattention | inattentiveness | inconsideration | incuriosity | indifference | inobservance | insaneness | insanity | irrationality | levity | lightmindedness | loss of mind | loss of reason | lunacy | madness | mania | mental deficiency | mental derangement | mental disease | mental disorder | mental disturbance | mental illness | mental instability | mental sickness | mind overthrown | mindsickness | negligence | nonobservance | obliviousness | oddness | pixilation | possession | psychopathy | queerness | rabidness | reasonlessness | recreation | regardlessness | senselessness | shallowness | shattered mind | sick mind | sickness | strangeness | superficiality | thoughtlessness | unalertness | unawareness | unbalance | unbalanced mind | unconsciousness | unheedfulness | unintentiveness | unmindfulness | unobservance | unsaneness | unsound mind | unsoundness | unsoundness of mind | unwariness | unwatchfulness | upset | witlessness See Also | alteration | amusement | confusion | disarray | entertainment | inattention | mental confusion | revision Distraction In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*trac"tion\, n. [L. distractio: cf. F.
distraction.]
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
To create distractions among us. --Bp. Burnet.
2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. ``Domestic
distractions.'' --G. Eliot.
3. A diversity of direction; detachment. [Obs.]
His power went out in such distractions as Beguiled
all species. --Shak.
4. State in which the attention is called in different ways;
confusion; perplexity.
That ye may attend upon the Lord without
distraction. --1 Cor. vii.
3?.
5. Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political
distractions.
Never was known a night of such distraction.
--Dryden.
6. Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind;
despair.
The distraction of the children, who saw both their
parents together, would have melted the hardest
heart. --Tatler.
7. Derangement of the mind; madness. --Atterbury.
Syn: Perplexity; confusion; disturbance; disorder;
dissension; tumult; derangement; madness; raving;
franticness; furiousness.
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