tunes out
Mentally checks out
Tunes out means to stop paying attention, withdrawing mentally from what's happening around you.
The image comes from turning a radio dial away from a station.
Someone tunes out a boring lecture, a nagging voice, or background noise they no longer want to register: I tried to explain, but she just tuned out.
To tune out something specific is to deliberately ignore it.
- stareProlonged fixed gaze
- glazed overBecame dull, unseeing
- distractionThing diverting one's attention
- driftGradual movement, no direction
- miles awayMentally elsewhere, unfocused
walking away · unmindfulness · indifference · absentmindedness · apathy · unresponsiveness · blank · lost in thought · disengagement · inattentiveness · glaze · daydreaming · yawn · disinterest · daze · aloofness · nod · hum
attention and engagement
tunes outtunes in
Selects a broadcast
pays attention · focuses · concentrates · engages · locks in