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intrusion

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Noun

  1. The forcible inclusion or entry of an external group or individual; the act of intruding.
  2. Magma forced into other rock formations; the rock formed when such magma solidifies.
  3. A structure that lies within a historic district but is nonhistoric and irrelevant to the district.
  4. The insertion of a phoneme into the pronunciation of a word despite its absence from the spelling. (e.g. intrusive r)
  5. An involuntarily arising idea or memory that is nuisant and falsifies an accurate impression of the world.

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