disattend

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ attend.

Verb

disattend (third-person singular simple present disattends, present participle disattending, simple past and past participle disattended)

1. To be distracted (from); used with to.
   • 2015 July 1, Lieke A. M. W. Wijnhoven et al., “The effect of the video game Mindlight on anxiety symptoms in children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder”, in BMC Psychiatry‎^[1], volume 15, →DOI:

     More specifically, they learn to move towards, and quickly respond to, positive stimuli ( e.g., portraits of happy faces) and disattend to, or shift attention away from, negative stimuli (e.g., mean faces, threatening animals).