MEANING
1. An unwanted entry into a place, activity, or private situation.
2. The entry of molten rock into cracks or spaces within rock that already exists.
3. A body of rock formed when molten material enters existing rock and cools there.
Use it for
describing a presence that violates someone’s privacy; showing a thought breaking into a quiet moment; creating tension through interference rather than overt attackNames an unwanted entry or interference, a precise source of tension, while keeping the geological process and resulting rock distinct. Writing functions: Tension / Unwanted Presence.
Words that belong together
- an intrusion on privacy
- an unwanted intrusion
- an intrusion into private life
On the page
The knock felt like an intrusion into a silence they had carefully built between them.
She apologized for the intrusion but left the unanswered question on the table.
The geologist attributed the dark band to an intrusion beneath the older strata.
The diagram separates underground intrusion from the lava flow visible at the surface.
A pale granite intrusion cut across the darker rock of the ridge.
Word forms
- Base
- intrusion
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: intrusion; plural intrusions. Intrusion into a place or situation; intrusion on privacy. Geological senses are technical. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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