uppmärksamhetens

Uppmärksamhetens is the genitive form of the Swedish noun uppmärksamhet, meaning attention or awareness. It is used to express possession or association, roughly translating to “of attention” or “the attention’s” in English. The base word uppmärksamhet is formed from uppmärksam, meaning attentive, with the abstract-noun suffix -het, which yields “the state or quality of being attentive.”

Grammatically, Swedish forms possessive by attaching the suffix -s to the definite form of a noun. The definite singular of uppmärksamhet is uppmärksamheten, and the genitive singular is uppmärksamhetens. The plural definite is uppmärksamheterna, and the plural genitive is uppmärksamheternas.

Uppmärksamhetens appears mainly in formal or academic Swedish to attribute a property or effect to attention. It can function as a noun phrase modifier or be the subject of a prepositional phrase: for example, uppmärksamhetens betydelse (“the importance of attention”) or uppmärksamhetens roll i uppgifter (“the role of attention in tasks”). In psychology and cognitive science, the term may arise when discussing attentional processes, perception, and memory, though in many contexts the simple uppmärksamhet is more common.

See also: uppmärksamhet, kognition, psykologi, perception.