intrusion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=tru=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

intrusion, n. [Cf. F. intrusion. See Intrude.].

•  The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.  [1913 Webster]

  "Why this intrusion?
  Were not my orders that I should be private?"  [1913 Webster]
•  The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.  [1913 Webster]
•  The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.  [1913 Webster]
•  The settlement of a minister over a congregation without their consent.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

intrusion, n.
1 the act or an instance of intruding.
2 an unwanted interruption etc.
3 Geol. an influx of molten rock between or through strata etc. but not reaching the surface.
4 the occupation of a vacant estate etc. to which one has no claim.
5 Phonet. the addition of a sound between words or syllables to facilitate pronunciation, e.g. the r in saw a film ().

Etymology

ME f. OF intrusion or med.L intrusio (as INTRUDE)

THESAURUS

intrusion

access, admission, alienage, alienism, encroachment, entrance, entree, entry, exteriority, extraneousness, extrinsicality, foreignness, import, importation, importing, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, income, incoming, inconvenience, incursion, inexpedience, infelicity, infiltration, infraction, infringement, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inopportuneness, inopportunity, input, inroad, insertion, insinuation, intake, intempestivity, intercurrence, interjacence, interlocation, intermediacy, interpenetration, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervenience, intervention, introduction, introgression, irrelevance, lateness, leakage, nonassimilation, nonconformity, overstepping, penetration, percolation, prematurity, reception, sandwiching, seepage, transgression, trespass, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, usurpation, wrongness

ROGET THESAURUS

intrusion

Irrelation

N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.

Disagreement

N disagreement, discord, discordance, dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy, unconformity, incongruity, incongruence, discongruity, mesalliance, jarring, dissension, conflict, bickering, clashing, misunderstanding, wrangle, disparity, mismatch, disproportion, dissimilitude, inequality, disproportionateness, variance, divergence, repugnance, unfitness, inaptitude, impropriety, inapplicability, inconsistency, inconcinnity, irrelevancy, misjoining, misjoinder, syncretism, intrusion, interference, concordia discors, fish out of water, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, at variance, at war, hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with, unconformable, exceptional, intrusive, incongruous, disproportionate, disproportionated, inharmonious, unharmonious, inconsonant, unconsonant, divergent, repugnant to, inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper, unsuited, unsuitable, inapplicable, not to the point, unfit, unfitting, unbefitting, unbecoming, illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible, inapposite, uncongenial, ill-assorted, ill-sorted, mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified, unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable, unsympathetic, out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element, at odds with, at variance with, in defiance, in contempt, in spite of, discordantly, a tort et a travers, asinus ad lyram.

Untimeliness

N untimeliness, intempestivity, unseasonableness, inexpedience, unsuitable time, improper time, unreasonableness, evil hour, contretemps, intrusion, anachronism, bad time, wrong time, inappropriate time, not the right occasion, unsuitable time, inopportune time, poor timing, ill-timed, mistimed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, untimely, unseasonable, out of date, out of season, inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos, unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavorable, unsuited, inexpedient, unpunctual, too late for, premature, too soon for, wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-twenty hindsight, inopportunely, as ill luck would have it, in an evil hour, the time having gone by, a day after the fair, after death the doctor, after meat mustard.

Interposition

N interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum.

Ingress

N ingress, entrance, entry, introgression, influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption, ingression, penetration, interpenetration, illapse, import, infiltration, immigration, admission, insinuation, insertion, inlet, way in, mouth, door, barway, path, conduit, immigrant, incoming.