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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intrusion \In*tru"sion\, noun [Cf. F. intrusion. See {Intrude}.]
1. The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I should be private? --Addison.
2. (Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.
3. (Law) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.
4. (Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over a congregation without their consent.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intrusion
noun
1: any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts" [syn: {invasion}, {encroachment}]
2: entrance by force or without permission or welcome
3: the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation
4: rock produced by an intrusive process
5: entry to another's property without right or permission [syn: {trespass}, {encroachment}, {violation}, {usurpation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "intrusion": access, admission, alienage, alienism, encroachment, entrance, entree, entry, exteriority, extraneousness, extrinsicality, foreignness, import, importation, importing, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, income, incoming, inconvenience, incursion, inexpedience, infelicity, infiltration, infraction, infringement, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inopportuneness, inopportunity, input, inroad, insertion, insinuation, intake, intempestivity, intercurrence, interjacence, interlocation, intermediacy, interpenetration, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervenience, intervention, introduction, introgression, irrelevance, lateness, leakage, nonassimilation, nonconformity, overstepping, penetration, percolation, prematurity, reception, sandwiching, seepage, transgression, trespass, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, usurpation, wrongness
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