engrossing
noun1
The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.
engrossing
adjUK /ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/ · US /ɛnˈɡɹoʊsɪŋ/
1
Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
- an engrossing documentary
- The good news about “The Silence” is that it’s engrossing and that, at 83, DeLillo’s syntax is as prickly as ever.2020 October 12, Dwight Garner, “Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- engrossingly, engrossingness, unengrossing