- verbdistract (verb) · distracts (third person present) · distracted (past tense) · distracted (past participle) · distracting (present participle)
- prevent (someone) from giving full attention to something:"don't allow noise to distract you from your work" · "she found his nearness distracting"
- divert (attention) from something:"it was another attempt to distract attention from the truth"
- (distract oneself)divert one's attention from something worrying or unpleasant by doing something different or more pleasurable:"I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jane"
- archaicperplex and bewilder:"horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts"
Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘pull in different directions’): from Latin distract- ‘drawn apart’, from the verb distrahere, from dis- ‘apart’ + trahere ‘to draw, drag’.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb
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- The inability to sustain attentionLearn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.Distractibility definition: inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another.www.dictionary.com/browse/distractibility
making it difficult for someone to give their attention to something:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/distracti…plural distractibilities : a condition in which the attention of the mind is easily distracted by small and irrelevant stimuliwww.merriam-webster.com/medical/distractible Distract Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
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