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intentness

noun as in absorption

noun as in engrossment

noun as in enthrallment

noun as in involvement

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Example Sentences

She seemed to him to have been listening with extra-special intentness.

She said nothing, but she looked at him with a strange, quick intentness, almost as though there were a warning on her tongue which at the moment she did not dare to utter.

On every face Burnham saw a “quiet intentness.”

There was an intentness to everyone, an odd seriousness, and a sense of worry—unusual in Village—pervaded the atmosphere.

In the next phase, the Bruins focused on Level 2: self-control, alertness, initiative and intentness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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