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Mindfulness

Definition: Mindfulness

Mindfulness

Noun

1. The trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mindfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Synonym: Mindfulness

Synonym: heedfulness (n). (additional references)
Antonym: unmindfulness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mindfulness

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Attention

Noun: attention; mindfulness, presence of mind; Adjective: intentness, intentiveness; alertness; thought; advertence, advertency; observance, observation; consideration, reflection, perpension; heed; heedfulness; particularity; notice, regard; Verb: circumspection, diligence; (care); study, scrutiny inspection, introspection; revision, revisal.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mindfulness

English words defined with "mindfulness": Minding. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Mindfulness

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mindfulness in Plain English (reference)

  • The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipatthna: A Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, With an Anthology of Relevant (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Mindfulness & Meditation - Stress Reduction / Mindful Parenting (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Mindfulness

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Warren G. Harding

1921-1923With all of this must attend a mindfulness of the human side of all activities, so that social, industrial, and economic justice will be squared with the purposes of a righteous people.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mindfulness

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mindfulness

78

mindfulness meditation

27

mindfulness based stress reduction

8

exercise mindfulness

5

california in meditation mindfulness southern

4

based mindfulness

4

mindfulness practice

3

mindfulness in plain english

3

the miracle of mindfulness

3

anxiety based mindfulness reduction

2

mindfulness training

2

levitation mindfulness

2

center mindfulness

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mindfulness

Language Translations for "mindfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Aufmerksamkeit (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention, attentiveness, heedfulness, perceptiveness, regard, thoughtfulness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indfulnessmay

   

Portuguese

  

atentamente. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

grijã (alarm, anxiety, attention, care, carefulness, charge, chariness, conscientiousness, custody, deliberation, foresight, harassment, neatness, observance, painstaking, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, worriment, worry), atenţie (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention, be careful, care, careful, carefulness, caution, closeness, complaisance, consideration, deliberation, have a care, heed, here goes, homage, interest, look out, lookout, note, notice, observance, regard, remark, stand by, thought, vigilance, watch), înţelegere (accommodation, accord, agreement, apprehension, arrangement, compact, compliance, composition, comprehension, comprehensiveness, concert, concord, concordat, connivance, convention, covenant, goodwill, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowing, perception, prehension, realization, sympathy, understanding, unity). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mindfulness

Derivations

Words beginning with "mindfulness": mindfulnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Mindfulness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mindfullness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mindfulness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-m-n-n-s-s-u"

-2 letters: fluidness.

-3 letters: fulmined, fulmines, mildness, mindless, minuends, sulfides, unfilmed.

-4 letters: dimness, dulness, dunlins, dunness, finless, fulmine, fulness, funnels, funnies, infused, infuses, innless, lindens, mildens, mindful, minuend, minuses, missend, misused, mueslis, muslins, niduses, nudisms, silenus, simnels, sulfide, sulfids, undines, unlined, unmined.

-5 letters: deisms, denims, dismes, disuse, dulses, dunlin, elfins, ennuis, felids, fields, fiends, filmed, filses.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-l-m-n-n-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: mindfulnesses.

 

+4 letters: fundamentalisms, fundamentalists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mindfulness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 6E 64 66 75 6C 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#110 &#100 &#102 &#117 &#108 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 006E 0064 0066 0075 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4775807072877880718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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