invagination

1. 1.

   the condition of being folded inward or sheathed

   Synonymsintroversion

   Broadercondition
2. 2.

   the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface

   “the invagination of the blastula”

   Synonymsintroversionintussusceptioninfolding

   Broaderorganic process

Other forms of invagination

plural

invaginations·

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 invagination

What does invagination mean?

invagination means "the condition of being folded inward or sheathed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in invagination?

invagination has 6 syllables: in-va-gi-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for invagination?

Close synonyms include introversion, introversion, intussusception, infolding. 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.

Is invagination a common word?

invagination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.