overfocus

present singular third person overfocuses · present singular third person overfocusses · participle present overfocusing · participle present overfocussing · participle past overfocused · past overfocused · participle past overfocussed · past overfocussed

1. To focus excessively (on a particular subject to the exclusion of others)

plural overfocuses

1. countablerareuncountableExcessive focus.

   The overfocus tends to kick on during whole-body, hands-on activities that the individual enjoys. It keeps musicians playing and actors performing long into the night.

   1996, Suzanne H. Stevens, The LD Child and the ADHD Child: Ways Parents and Professionals Can Help, J.F. Blair Publisher, →ISBN, page 43

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   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.

   1913, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine, Harper & Brothers, page 114

   Emphasis upon NVC decreases overfocus on words, intellectual insights, and understanding of psychodynamics which do not sufficiently stimulate and motivate patients toward being, toward self-realization, toward that dynamically knowing self which inherently implies accepting self with and without understanding.

   1963, Max Rosenbaum, Milton Miles Berger, Group Psychotherapy and Group Function, Basic Books, page 425