noun
- Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people. )
- usage: "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences"
- synonyms: attentiveness, heed, regard
adjective
- Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention.
- usage: "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"
- synonyms: heedful, attentive, thoughtful
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