attention span
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- noun
- /əˈtɛnʃən spæn/
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capacidad de atención
- Many students struggle to maintain their attention span in long lectures.
- short attention span
- longer attention span
- poor attention span
A lot of people talk about attention spans being shortened, right?
- A lot of people talk about attention spans being shortened, right?
- We live in a generation today where people's attention spans are just getting squashed.
- That was here today, gone tomorrow kind of a thing just because of the attention span of human beings.
- The industry has a very short attention span and a long memory.
- Many people today experience trouble focusing and short attention spans.
- Yeah, I think they're counting on a short attention span, right?
- Research shows that people who meditate can increase their attention span.
- We have a smaller attention span than you with me on this.
- So now I think what's more obvious is, is our attention span.
- And people don't have big attention spans.
- So once you know that, the next step is to figure out attention span.
Examples
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As we have all seen, humans have very short attention spans, and there's just too much time between now and Christmas.
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I have a really short attention span.
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The industry has a very short attention span and a long memory.
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You know how short my attention span is.
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My sister's attention span is short, so I end up doing most of the work.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's like people talk about, you know, our attention span today being shorter than ever.
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The short attention span of today's youth.
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We find that as sleep debt increases, attention spans decrease.
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As students grow and develop, their attention spans are greater, and they are able to absorb more in one lesson.
Academic text (2014) -
We live in a generation today where people's attention spans are just getting squashed.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the length of time someone can concentrate' is directly and predictably composed from 'attention' (mental focus) and 'span' (an interval or length). This noun+noun combination follows a common compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Attention span uses span in its old sense of 'a length or distance', giving a picture of how far or how long your attention can reach. So it means the length of time you can 'focus' on something before your mind moves on.