hyperfocus

An intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses the consciousness on a narrow subject.

Noun

  1. An intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses the consciousness on a narrow subject.
    • Such are the three branches of the first power or focal passions, whereof unityism is the trunk or hyperfocus. - 1851, Charles Fourier, Hugh Doherty, John Reynell Morell, The Passions of the Human Soul, Hippolyte...
    • Such are the three branches of the first power or focal passions, whereof unityism is the trunk or hyperfocus. - 1907, The American Amateur Photographer and Camera & Dark Room, American Photographic Public Company, page...
    • Officials (and their wives) schemed to get to major capitals; and felt banished if they were in a secondary or tertiary post. The hyperfocus upon the dominant spots was crystallized and confirmed by the selection of...

Origin

From hyper- + focus.

Related

hyperfocal

Verb

  1. To focus intensely.

Forms

hyperfocuses hyperfocusses hyperfocusing hyperfocussing hyperfocused hyperfocussed