immersion

immersion is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
2. noun. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
3. noun. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
4. noun. The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.
5. noun. the act of wetting something by submerging it

   Synonyms: dousing, ducking, submersion

6. noun. a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
7. noun. complete attention; intense mental effort

   Synonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossment

8. noun. (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse

   Synonyms: ingress

9. noun. sinking until covered completely with water

   Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion

Synonyms

dousing, ducking, submersion, absorption, concentration, engrossment, ingress, submergence, submerging

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in immersion:

semiminor

Common word forms

immersions

Words from these letters

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