focusing

1. 1.

   the concentration of attention or energy on something

   “the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology”

   “he had no direction in his life”

   Synonymsfocusfocussingfocal pointdirectioncentering

   Broaderconcentration

   Narrowerparticularism
2. 2.

   the act of bringing into focus

   Synonymsfocalizationfocalisation

   Broaderintensification

   Narrowerrefocusing

Other forms of focusing

plural

focusings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about focusing

What does focusing mean?

focusing means "the concentration of attention or energy on something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in focusing?

focusing has 3 syllables: fo-cu-sing. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ˈfoʊkəsɪŋ/.

What is another word for focusing?

Close synonyms include focus, focussing, focal point, direction, centering. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is focusing a common word?

focusing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with focusing?

1 word rhymes with focusing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.