immersion

1. 1.

   sinking until covered completely with water

   Synonymssubmergencesubmergingsubmersion

   Broadersinking

   Narrowerdip
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsingress

   Antonymsemersion

   Broaderdisappearance

   Part ofeclipse

   astronomy

3. 3.

   complete attention; intense mental effort

   Synonymsconcentrationengrossmentabsorption

   Broaderattention

   Narrowerfocusspecialismstudy
4. 4.

   a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged

   Broaderbaptism

   Narrowertrine immersion
5. 5.

   the act of wetting something by submerging it

   Synonymssubmersionduckingdousing

   Broaderwetting

Other forms of immersion

plural

immersions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immersion

What does immersion mean?

immersion means "sinking until covered completely with water". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in immersion?

immersion has 3 syllables: im-mer-sion. The stress falls on "mer". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈmɝʒən/.

What is another word for immersion?

Close synonyms include submergence, submerging, submersion, ingress, concentration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of immersion?

The recorded antonyms are emersion.

Is immersion a common word?

immersion is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with immersion?

1 word rhymes with immersion. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.