paying attention

Noun paying attention has 1 sense

• paying attention(n = noun.cognition) attentiveness, heed, regard - paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"
is a kind of attending, attention
has particulars: advertence, advertency

Adjective paying attention has 1 sense

• paying attention(a = adj.all) attentive, heedful, thoughtful - taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"