focalize

English

Etymology

From focal +‎ -ize.

Verb

focalize (third-person singular simple present focalizes, present participle focalizing, simple past and past participle focalized)

1. To focus, or to adjust a focus.
2. To sharpen an image by focusing.
3. To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
4. (narratology) To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211:

     The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.

Derived terms

• focalization
• focalizer
• unfocalized

Translations

to focus, or to adjust a focus

• Bulgarian: фокусирам (fokusiram)
• Dutch: focaliseren
• Russian: фокуси́ровать (ru) (fokusírovatʹ)

Portuguese

Verb

focalize

1. inflection of focalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative