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Engrossment

noun

Complete attention; intense mental effort. Synonyms: absorption, concentration, immersion.

The mental state of being preoccupied by something. Synonyms: absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation.

The quality of being intent and concentrated. Synonym: intentness.

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"Engrossment" Quotes from Famous Books

... gently behind me. What mystery was there in this woman's life? This listlessness, this strange self-engrossment and stranger mania about people long dead, this indifference and desire to annoy towards her husband—did it all mean that Alice Oke had loved or still loved some one who was not the master of Okehurst? And his melancholy, his preoccupation, the something ...

— Hauntings • Vernon Lee

... Miss Ethel's expense. She had bargained for food, and food was there; and there was an end of it. But the front-door bell rang, and something in Miss Ethel's expression did then pierce her self-engrossment. ...

— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose

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