paying attention

Adjective

• taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
  • heedful of the warnings
    
  • so heedful a writer
    
  • heedful of what they were doing
    

Noun

• paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
  • his attentiveness to her wishes
    
  • he spends without heed to the consequences
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  heedful , attentive , thoughtful , attentiveness , heed , regard
• Antonyms: 
  heedless , unheeding , inattentiveness , heedlessness