FOCUSSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does focussing mean? 

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

1. the concentration of attention or energy on something

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOCUSSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The concentration of attention or energy on something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

centering; direction; focal point; focus; focusing; focussing

Context example:

he had no direction in his life

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

absorption; concentration; engrossment; immersion (complete attention; intense mental effort)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "focussing"):

particularism (a focus on something particular)

Derivation:

focus (direct one's attention on something)

 Context examples 

Thus, although we found Southampton full of Pressmen, we absolutely refused to give any information, which had the natural effect of focussing public attention upon the meeting which was advertised for the evening of November 7th.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whole pages of it are filled with masses of figures, generally single numbers added up in batches, and then the totals added in batches again, as though he were focussing some account, as the auditors put it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)