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distraction
  1. Something that distracts.
  2. The process of being distracted.
  3. Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
  4. Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Junior faculty members, in particular, want to ensure that their blogs are not a distraction from their primary research.”
      “Her torrent of expletives provided us with little teaching guidance, serving more as an irritating distraction.”
      “Dutch would convince Arthur Morgan to create a distraction by blowing up the bridge.”
distracter
  1. That which distracts, or serves as a distraction
  2. Any of the incorrect answers in a multiple-choice question
  3. Examples:
    1. “Another button labeled »child« automatically produces a moving choo-choo train as a visual distracter for the child.”
      “The purpose of a distracter is to tempt you into a cul-de-sac of logical error.”
      “People in groups often take on different roles, such as the silent member, the leader, the joker, the interrupter, the distracter, and so on.”
distractibility
  1. The ease with which a person's concentration can be interfered with by external stimulation or by irrelevant thoughts
  2. Examples:
    1. “Symptoms are impulsivity, inattentiveness, hyperactivity and distractibility.”
      “Her weaknesses include distractibility, short attention span, weak memory, poor auditory analytic skills, over-focusing, and slow processing.”
      “There are other elements such as fatigue, distractibility, incomfort, and the increased rates of errors and self-corrections.”
distractedness
  1. The state or quality of being distracted; distraction.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Lizzie is relentlessly charming throughout, even as she somehow misses Gordo's obvious misery at her distractedness.”
      “If distractedness breeds emotional turmoil, the ability to sustain our gaze, to keep looking, can bring greater clarity and insight.”
      “The error might have resulted from a second's distractedness rather than illiteracy.”
distractability
  1. Alternative form of distractibility
distractor
  1. Alternative spelling of distracter
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The distractor items all consisted of a small metal screw located to the left of this circular indentation.”
      “On Lag 0 Ignored Repetition trials, the probe target was reassigned the word that appeared as the distractor in the second prime display.”
      “This differs from the protocol described above, wherein the new target was never a distractor.”
distractions
  1. plural of distraction
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Those sailors not hosting visitors had a number of other distractions, including sports fixtures and a community project.”
      “With all these options and distractions it can be hard to spend quality time with the people you love.”
      “The tight, slick production makes this easily playable at high volume without many gimmicky distractions.”
distracters
  1. plural of distracter
distractors
  1. plural of distractor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Their time would be well spent on real distractors and discourtesies, like this one, things that really do get in the way of understanding.”
      “Greater saccadic selectivity towards those distractors sharing shape with the target was observed when more discriminable shapes were employed.”
      “Some distractors considered unlikely and incorrect by the authors have occurred.”
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