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Ingressive vs Ingression - What's the difference?

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Ingressive is a related term of ingression.


As nouns the difference between ingressive and ingression

is that ingressive is (phonetics) a speech sound in which the air stream is created by drawing air in through the mouth or nose while ingression is the act or process of entering or intruding.

As an adjective ingressive

is going or directed inward, entering.

ingressive

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • going or directed inward, entering
  • open to entry or examination
  • The chances that your internet actions are being watched is low, despite the ingressive nature of the modern internet envioronment .
  • (phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
  • (geology) descriptive of a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
  • This spring is the ingressive source of the water that flows through the cave .

    Antonyms

    * egressive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) A speech sound in which the air stream is created by drawing air in through the mouth or nose.
  • Antonyms

    * egressive ----

    ingression

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of entering or intruding
  • ingression of the sea onto land
  • (metaphysics) The process by which a potentiality enters into actuality
  • *{{quote-book, 1967, Whitehead's Metaphysics, Edward Pols citation
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  • (biology) The inward migration of cells from the blastula during gastrulation
  • *{{quote-book, 1940, Libbie Henrietta Hyman, The Invertebrates, page=496
  • , passage=Ingression' of ectodermal cells from the area between the velar lobes establishes the cerebral ganglia and similar ' ingressions produce the other ganglia. }}