Meanings
present singular third person focalizes · participle present focalizing · participle past focalized · past focalized
- To sharpen an image by focusing.
- To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
- human sciencesTo switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.
2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211
Synonyms & antonyms
verbbring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian фокусирам
- фокусирам (fokusiram)to focus, or to adjust a focus
Catalan focalitzar
- focalitzarto focus, or to adjust a focus
Dutch focaliseren
- focaliserento focus, or to adjust a focus
French focaliser
- focaliserto focus, or to adjust a focus
Italian focalizzare
- focalizzareto focus, or to adjust a focus
Portuguese focalizar
- focalizarto focus, or to adjust a focus
Russian фокуси́ровать
- фокуси́ровать (fokusírovatʹ)to focus, or to adjust a focus
Spanish focalizar
- focalizarto focus, or to adjust a focus
Cite this entry
focalize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/focalize
“focalize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/focalize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “focalize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/focalize.
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