upstaging
English edit
Verb edit
upstaging
- present participle and gerund of upstage
Noun edit
upstaging (plural upstagings)
- A situation where somebody or something is upstaged; thus:
- (theater, also figurative) A stealing of the spotlight, as (or as if) one performer eclipses another in the audience's attention.
- (medicine, surgery, oncology) An increase in the stage of a case of a disease (usually a cancer), from a less-threatening to a more-threatening stage.
- Hypernym: restaging
- Antonym: downstaging