obtrusion

American  

[uhb-troo-zhuhn] / əbˈtru ʒən /

noun

1. the act of obtruding.

2. something obtruded.

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Other Word Forms

• obtrusionist noun
• preobtrusion noun

Etymology

Origin of obtrusion

1570–80; < Late Latin obtrūsiōn- (stem of obtrūsiō ), equivalent to Latin obtrūs ( us ) ( obtrūd ( ere ) to obtrude + tus past participle suffix, with dt > s ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

This, however, was a different order of obtrusion.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2011

Equally important is inappropriateness: "the linking of disparates, the collision of different mental spheres, the obtrusion into one context of what belongs in another."

From Time Magazine Archive

The obtrusion of these two dead women upon Poe's subliminal nature is seen in the self-frustration of incipient amours before his marriage with a "consumptive angel" of 13, Virginia Clemm.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a controversial pamphlet it evinces none of the want of judgment with which Hallam charges Ralegh, though the defect appears plainly in his obtrusion of such views upon James.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

But her impatient spirit fretted against delay; and this senseless obtrusion of inanimate things,—angering her, as only the inanimate can,—drowned the still small voice of common-sense.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud