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Transgression vs Ingression - What's the difference?

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Ingression is a related term of transgression.



As nouns the difference between transgression and ingression

is that transgression is a violation of a law, command or duty while ingression is the act or process of entering or intruding.

transgression

Noun

(en noun)
  • A violation of a law, command or duty
  • An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries
  • A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
  • 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. }}