What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Immersion vs Affusion - What's the difference?

immersion | affusion |

As nouns the difference between immersion and affusion

is that immersion is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed while affusion is the pouring of liquid.

immersion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
  • the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
  • (British, Ireland, informal) an immersion heater
  • (mathematics) a smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding
  • (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    affusion

    English

    (wikipedia affusion)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The pouring of liquid.
  • A method of Christian baptism where water is poured on the head of the person being baptized.

    • Usage notes

    Sometimes confused with effusion, "an outpouring of liquid".