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Immersion vs Immersive - What's the difference?

immersion | immersive |

Immersive is a related term of immersion.



As a noun immersion

is the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.

As an adjective immersive is

tending to immerse.

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

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    immersive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to immerse.
  • Giving the impression of immersion.

    • Related terms

    * immersiveness * immersivity * immersion