engrossment

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From engross + -ment.

Charlotte's engrossment in her new life, her eagerness to please her master, was a contemptible weakness to this embittered heart. — Emily Brontë, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
It was much punctuated by present engrossments, and from first to last was more or less infiltrated through the necessaries of life, for Bill was a healthy young man without a trace of false shame. — Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton
She explained that Corvick had just settled down to it when he was interrupted by her mother’s death; then, on his return, he had been kept from work by the engrossments into which that calamity plunged them. — Embarrassments, Henry James

concentration, absorption, immersion

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