Synonyms for attention span
at·ten·tion span

Princeton's WordNet

1. attention spannoun

   the length of time you can concentrate on some idea or activity

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1. Ryan McCormick:

   When a celebrity is officially dropped from a brand the publicist should focus immediately on providing comfort and consolation, send a big gift basket and be there 24/7 for them, they should also give reassurances about the future and offer actions about what that celebrity can take to make their situation better. Telling a client to drop out of the public eye for a few months isn't a bad idea. Right now the world is moving so fast and most people have a very short attention span. The likelihood of a global event or national scandal eclipsing what your client had been involved in is reasonably high. Let time heal.

2. Christina Schwarzenegger:

   You get a high from it, but in a completely different arena, it’s very helpful obviously for people to have ADD, who struggle with their attention span. It’s a very helpful drug for those types of people. And I think if they find it helpful if they’re able to take it on an as-needed basis or the way it was prescribed by your doctor without abusing, I think that’s totally fine.

3. Dimitri Christakis:

   Even without a clinical diagnosis of ADHD, diminished attentional capacity is associated with poorer function both in childhood and in subsequent adulthood, we know that having a shorter attention span, regardless of whether or not you have a diagnosis of ADHD, is bad.

4. Sam Wass:

   This paper isn't looking at attention span per se, rather, it is about how second-by-second changes in a parent's attention influence a child's attention. So if I choose to pay attention to nice things, my baby is more likely to pay attention to them too.

5. Dimitri Christakis:

   We know that having a shorter attention span, regardless of whether or not you have a diagnosis of ADHD, is bad.