"overfocus" meaning in All languages combined

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        "To focus excessively (on a particular subject to the exclusion of others)"
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          "ref": "1913, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine, Harper & Brothers, page 114:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1963, Max Rosenbaum, Milton Miles Berger, Group Psychotherapy and Group Function, Basic Books, page 425:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1996, Suzanne H. Stevens, The LD Child and the ADHD Child: Ways Parents and Professionals Can Help, J.F. Blair Publisher, →ISBN, page 43:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(rare) Excessive focus."
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