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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.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various

Sidney Hinchford, be it observed here, made but a clumsy blind man; he had little of that concentrativeness of the remaining senses, which make amends for the deprivation of one faculty.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William

Their tendency is to break up that concentrativeness which, as I have said, is an absolute necessity to the scientific investigator.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

There was something almost terrible about her concentrativeness.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna

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.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various