focussing

Other forms of focussing

plural

focussings·

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 focussing

What does focussing mean?

focussing means "the concentration of attention or energy on something".

How many syllables are in focussing?

focussing has 3 syllables and divides as fo-cus-sing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for focussing?

Close synonyms include focus, focusing, 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 focussing a common word?

focussing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.