distraction

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
distraction/dɪˈstrakʃn/

▶noun

• 1 a thing that diverts someone's attention.

• 2 a thing offering recreation or entertainment.

• 3 an agitated mental state: her air of distraction.

– phrases
to distraction almost to a state of madness: she loved him to distraction.