--- title: "How to pronounce \"overfocus\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"overfocus\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/9nqR9XNU7Wk/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/overfocus" --- # How to pronounce "overfocus" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ɒvɛrfɒkʌs/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **o·ver·fo·cus** - **Parts of Speech**: verb, noun - **VERB**: To focus excessively (on a particular subject to the exclusion of others) - **NOUN**: Excessive focus. - *Example*: "Yet it is a knowledge that remains an outsider's knowledge, and confined to the outside of things. O'Hara has never been truly of the rich as Edith Wharton was, and he has always reported the manners of the upper classes with a glaring overfocus, a visible nervous stress, as if unable to shake off some inner lack of ease." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "overfocus" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Scan for bad news. Overfocus upon it. Overreact to it. Fast track it in the memory, especially emotional memory, implicit memory." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 25:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqR9XNU7Wk&t=1522s) ### Example 2 > "brought me home a muffin. We had muffins together." So, the euphoric recall is the overfocus on those good experiences as a way in essence to create this sort of psychological buy-in so that you can maintain the status quo. For people in narcissistic relationships, it's not as though they're waking up saying, "This is a hellscape I want to get out." They're getting up saying, "I'm so" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 57:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTkKXDvSJvo&t=3478s) ### Example 3 > "medic would look at the soldier and say, "Soldier, your arm is gone." And he look and he wouldn't notice that half of his arm is missing. Because pain requires attention. So, when we overfocus on our pain, when all we pay attention to is our pain, and I'm saying here physiologically as well as psychologically, the pain becomes worse." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 75:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDdoUbCFn24&t=4525s) ### Example 4 > "the the idea of of brand advertising uh is one that that has not get has not gotten its due um in in the online space I think it's because clicks are measurable people overfocused on clicks as a measure of the effectiveness of the ad uh and so we haven't seen a lot of really really big advertisers doing all that much online uh but I think that'll change I mean just the the idea that um" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kED85LOi8Ww&t=70s) ### Example 5 > "they'd have some ideas about it and if I told them that it was real they would just form some other ideas about it as well and I like to keep people perfectly in the Middle where they're not sure and it's much more interesting I don't think they're overfocused I mean I think we have certain belief systems that uh but I find that people are remarkably open I've performed for scientists and I'm always doctors and" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8HM8omNXRI&t=96s) ### Example 6 > "have some ideas about it and if I told them that it was real they would just form some other ideas about it as well and I like to keep people perfectly in the Middle where they're not sure and it's much more interesting I don't think they're overfocused I mean I think we have certain belief systems that uh but I find that people are remarkably open I've performed for scientists and I'm always doctors and" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TWXUNR6nKY&t=365s) ### Example 7 > "mid-range beta it's not on this chart but high level beta is when you're fearful when you're anxious when you're angry when you're in pain when you're frustrated when you're jealous whatever uh people get switched on in these high levels of beta and that's when we get overfocused you ever been under stressed and you start over focusing that's because you're you're you're narrowing your focus and you're over focusing and that's kind of a brain State and so when" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 68:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hkYDjPSFs&t=4130s) ### Example 8 > "there. And you have this diamond pattern. So, you have ADD and we'll talk more about it. It's a subtype I call overfocused ADD where you can be obsessive when you're really interested in something, but if it doesn't interest you, it's hard for you to focus." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycTZ_t-aiuU&t=800s) ### Example 9 > "more neutral tone would be a a win for that maybe he'll dial it down a little bit what exactly has Pope Francis said on capitalism on Wall Street he's talked about income inequality bit has he attacked capitalism and the pursuit of prophet specifically he has talked about an over um being overfocused on profit he's talked about uh reigning in the speculative practices uh nothing he hasn't gone too strong at Wall Street but you know wal street is tied into the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8usLEz2_thE&t=71s) ### Example 10 > "That itself lives up to who you are. Like that's the whole point of being here. You know what I mean? >> Yeah, of course. Yeah. So these fleeting moments of like insincerity, it I think people overfocus on that as a signal of inauthenticity. Okay, fine. If it's tied to an more overarching goal of like I want to be a good human being and a good conversationalist, often because I want" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 142:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYXzR5KahEg&t=8536s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [oven](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/oven), [ovenable](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ovenable), [ovenbird](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ovenbird), [ovenchyma](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ovenchyma), [ovened](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ovened), [ovenette](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ovenette), [ovenful](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ovenful), [ovening](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ovening) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "overfocus" correctly? 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