MINDFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mindfulness mean? 

• MINDFULNESS (noun)
  The noun MINDFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities

  Familiarity information: MINDFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINDFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heedfulness; mindfulness

Hypernyms ("mindfulness" is a kind of...):

attentiveness (the trait of being observant and paying attention)

Attribute:

aware; mindful (bearing in mind; attentive to)

forgetful; mindless; unmindful (not mindful or attentive)

Antonym:

unmindfulness (the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities)

Derivation:

mindful (bearing in mind; attentive to)

 Context examples 

The prompts included questions about where the participant was, if they were moving, and if they were stressed or anxious, as well as questions designed to assess mindfulness.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Study provides evidence for the existence of a non-opioid process in the brain to reduce pain through mindfulness meditation.

(Scientists discover non-opioid pain pathway in the brain, NIH)

Results from a new study demonstrate that mindfulness meditation works on a different pain pathway in the brain than opioid pain relievers.

(Scientists discover non-opioid pain pathway in the brain, NIH)

To better explore the causal role of mindfulness on lower negative states of being, Yang completed a second study, in which older adults who participated in an outdoor mindfulness activity then reported on their feelings of stress, anxiety and depression.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Previous research has shown that mindfulness meditation helps relieve pain, but researchers have been unclear about how the practice induces pain relief — specifically, if meditation is associated with the release of naturally occurring opiates.

(Scientists discover non-opioid pain pathway in the brain, NIH)