Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or faculty of concentrating; specifically, in phrenology, one of the propensities seated in the brain, which gives the power of fixing the whole mind or attention upon a particular subject. See cut under
phrenology .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of concentrating.
- noun (Phren.) The faculty or propensity which has to do with concentrating the intellectual the intellectual powers.
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- noun The state or quality of being
concentrative .
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Examples
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It is remarkable for concentrativeness of design and affections, strong gravity, drawing power and cohesiveness, strong will, resolution, dignity, serious disposition and expression; moderate circulation and coolness of temperature.
How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor
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Electric on the other hand, is noted for its strength of bone and muscle and concentrativeness of character, traits deficient in the Magnetic.
How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor
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No lawyer does his duty, who does not frequently examine his student, not merely as a necessary means of exciting him to attention, and application; but in order to acquire such an acquaintance with the character of his pupil's mind -- its quickness or slowness -- its concentrativeness or discursiveness -- as to be able to form a judgment whether he requires the curb or the spur.
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood
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There goes a man of no business at all: very probably it is the best occupation he is fitted for, as he has no concentrativeness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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He was a man of varied, but not profound learning, an active intellect, giving and receiving impressions with equal facility, and with an unusual combination of concentrativeness and versatility in his nature.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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Christian; and if the language be here and there meagre or lack concentrativeness, we pardon it in consideration of the high idea by which plot, incident, and character are swayed.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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There was something almost terrible about her concentrativeness.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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There was something almost terrible about her concentrativeness.
Fanny Herself 1917
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His intellectual development was magnificent; comparison and causality immense, with large ideality and constructiveness, individuality, an enormous concentrativeness and caution.
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I looked over his shoulder, admiring his clear, firm hand-writing; the precision, concentrativeness, and quickness, with which he first seemed to arrange, and then execute his ideas.
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