Etymograph

English

hyperfocus

From hyper- + focus.

Formed from hyper- + focus

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Latin focus ‘hearth’

English focus

Today it means

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

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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