raptness

You could see the raptness in the attention of the president who probably had lost links with such traditional greeting of the elderly, native only to the Yoruba.

A very similar comparison appears in The Open wherein animal raptness, opposing the openness of the human perspective, is associated to the apophatic doctrine.

Phil, who produces a string of warm and fuzzy assurances about hobbies being healthy, while Bana listens with near-cringe-inducing raptness. A guided tour of Jay Leno's classic car collection yields little more than celebrity show-and-tell, leaving Jeremy Clarkson, a popular co-host of British TV's "Top Gear," to nail the matter.