concentrate
verb (used with object)
to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus.
concentrativeness
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a word derived from
concentrate.
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a word derived from
concentrative.
concentrativeadjectivetending to concentrate; characterized by concentration
Example Sentences
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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.
From How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by William Windsor
No wonder that the beautiful face was seldom free from a tinge of sadness; no wonder that her character had acquired a concentrativeness and reserve beyond her short twenty years of life.
From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford
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 Frederick William Robinson
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 John Tyndall
The same power of concentrativeness that he so eminently possessed himself, he imparted, as if by magic, to his Government.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
