Focus vs Feminocentrism - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between focus and feminocentrism

is that focus is a point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge while feminocentrism is focus on women; a female-centered worldview sometimes used pejoratively to imply such a focus is misandric.

As a verb focus

is to cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.

focus

English

(wikipedia focus)

Noun

(countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.

(countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.

(uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

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(uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

(uncountable) Concentration of attention.

(countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions.

(computing, graphical user interface) The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.

(linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.

Verb

To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.

To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.

You'll need to focus the microscope carefully in order to capture the full detail of this surface.

To concentrate one's attention.

Focus on passing the test.

To concentrate one’s attention.

If you're going to beat your competitors, you need to focus .

Usage notes

The spellings focusses'', ''focussing'', ''focussed'' are more common in Commonwealth English than in American English, but in both varieties they are less common than the spellings ''focuses'', ''focusing'', ''focused .

Derived terms

* focus group * in focus * out of focus

feminocentrism
English

Noun
(-)
focus on women; a female-centered worldview (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such a focus is misandric)

* 1994 , Constance D. Harsh, Subversive heroines: feminist resolutions of social crisis in the condition-of-England novel

Feminocentrism and the Road to Female Empowerment At the onset of the riot scene in North and South, Margaret Hale is safely stationed with the Thornton family on the second floor of their home.

* 2002 , Cecilia Reynolds, Women and school leadership: international perspectives , page 152:

This method of inquiry is more holistic, as it goes beyond criticisms of androcentrism or feminocentrism (the practice of viewing the world and shaping reality from a male lens then, conversely, from a female lens)

* 2003 , Suzanne Rodin Pucci, James Thompson, Jane Austen and Co: remaking the past in contemporary culture , page 249:

As Laura Mulvey and many other film theorists have argued, this is a structural position that women rarely occupy in commercial cinema. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the feminocentrism of the novels is cited by several of those involved in the recent productions

Synonyms
* gynocentrism
Related terms
* feminocentric * femicentric * feminacentric