- concentration
- I(Roget's IV) n.1. [The act of bringing together]Syn. assembly, consolidation, convergence, collection, combination, massing, amassing, compression, coalescing, compacting, congregation, gathering, flocking, huddling, clustering, fixing, centering, focusing, intensification; see also collection 1 .Ant. dispersal, separation*, scattering.2. [Anything brought together]Syn. company, concourse, audience, miscellany, band, party, flock, herd, mass, group, array; see also army 2 , collection 2 , crowd 1 .3. [Attention]4. [Density]II(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.1. thinking centering, focus, study, fixation, consideration, absorption, engrossment, pondering, scrutiny, attention, single-mindedness.2. collection, gathering assemblage, mass, intensification, focus, converging, consolidation, congregation, centralization, cluster, agglomerate.ANT.: 1. diversion, absentmindedness, mind-wandering. 2. spread, scattering, dispersalIII(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A converging at a common center: confluence, conflux, convergence. See EDGE. 2. Concentration of the mental powers on something: attention, attentiveness, consideration, needfulness, regardfulness. See EXCITE.
English dictionary for students. 2013.