Distraction

Noun

 * 1) Something that distracts.
 * Poking one's eye is a good distraction from a hurting toe.
 * 1) The process of being distracted.
 * We have to reduce distraction in class if we want students to achieve good results.
 * 1) Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
 * 2) *1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
 * It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle.
 * 1) Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
 * The incessant nightmares drove him to distraction.

Adjectives for Distraction
infinite; compelling; manifold; powerful; sweet; skillful; extreme; artificial; material; innocent; bewildered; beneficial; end¬less; blind; great; cautious.

Verbs for Distraction
attend with—; avoid—; blind to—; con demn—; drive to—; fear—; justify— labor under—; lock out—; occasion—; resuit in—; shut out—; view with—; —arises —confuses; —diverts; —intercepts; —interrupts; —perturbs.

Thesaurus
aberration, abnormality, absentmindedness, agitation, alienation, amusement, befuddlement, bewilderment, brain damage, brainsickness, carelessness, clouded mind, confusion, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorder, disorientation, disregard, disregardfulness, dissipation, disturbance, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, flightiness, flippancy, folie, frivolousness, furor, giddiness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, levity, lightmindedness, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, negligence, nonobservance, obliviousness, oddness, pixilation, possession, psychopathy, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, recreation, regardlessness, senselessness, shallowness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, superficiality, thoughtlessness, unalertness, unawareness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unwariness, unwatchfulness, upset, witlessness

Etymology
See to distract.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: distracció
 * Finnish: häiriö, häiriötekijä


 * German:
 * Japanese: 逆上 (ぎゃくじょう, gyakujō)


 * Bulgarian:, разсейване


 * Finnish:
 * Russian: отвлечение

Noun

 * 1) entertainment
 * 1) entertainment

Related terms

 * distraire