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

It can be got only by a constant obtrusion of a mere idea, the idea of self, and of such unsatisfactory ideas as one's right, for instance, to exclude others.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon

She is the offspring of man’s own impure fancy, and, as the Hermetists say, ‘an obtrusion.’

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward