Overfocus
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Excessive focus. countable, rare, uncountable
"Yet it is a knowledge that remains an outsider's knowledge, and confined to the outside of things. O'Hara has never been truly of the rich as Edith Wharton was, and he has always reported the manners of the upper classes with a glaring overfocus, a visible nervous stress, as if unable to shake off some inner lack of ease."
- 1 To focus excessively (on a particular subject to the exclusion of others)
Example
More examples"Yet it is a knowledge that remains an outsider's knowledge, and confined to the outside of things. O'Hara has never been truly of the rich as Edith Wharton was, and he has always reported the manners of the upper classes with a glaring overfocus, a visible nervous stress, as if unable to shake off some inner lack of ease."
Etymology
From over- + focus.
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