Lexic.us

Definition of Attention-getting

1. Adjective. Seizing the attention. "Eye-catching posters"

2. Adjective. Likely to attract attention. "A catchy title for a movie"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attention-getting

attendest attendeth attending attending physician attending staff attending surgeon attendings attendment attendments attends

attent attentat attentats attention attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder attention-getting (current term) attention-grabbing attention-seeker attention-seekers attention deficit disorder

attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity attention deficit hyperactivity disorder attention seeker attention seekers attention span attention spans

Literary usage of Attention-getting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elementary Laws of Advertising and how to Use Them by Henry Stanhope Bunting (1913)
"So that, when attention- getting power is considered, we must figure not only the attention-getting power of the mere space, but of the sign in the space ..."

2. Modern Business Writing by Charles Harvey Raymond (1921)
"The Beginning of the selling appeal should, therefore, compel his interest at virtually the same moment that it wins his attention. III. "attention-getting" ..."

3. Essential Principles of Teaching Reading and Literature in the Intermediate by Sterling Andrus Leonard (1922)
"INSTINCTS OF attention-getting The pleasure of achievement is closely related to that in strutting, mastering and " showing off." The enjoyment of merely ..."

4. The Mailbag (1918)
"... the RIGHT KIND of window displays will secure more direct ATTENTION-getting publicity than will a like expenditure for any other medium of advertising. ..."

5. Psychology, from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist by John Broadus Watson (1919)
"... attention-getting” and other instincts. Imitation.—Psychologists and students of animal behavior generally are more or less divided in their opinion as ..."

6. How to Write Business Letters by Walter Kay Smart (1916)
"They dispense with the special attention-getting device—the display head or the short, pithy opening sentence—and start in directly with some subject of ..."

7. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1873)
"The attention getting value of this individualizing device cannot be too greatly emphasized in the first step of the selling process. Tone of voice. ..."

8. Day One and Beyond: Practical Matters for New Middle-Level Teachersby Rick Wormeli by Rick Wormeli (2003)
"If announcements are applicable to only one or two students, speak with them privately. There are many attention-getting signals you can use. ..."

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