retrusion

English

Etymology

Latin retrūsiō, from retrūdō (“to push back”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈtɹuːʒən/

Noun

retrusion (countable and uncountable, plural retrusions)

1. The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
   • 11 February, 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Luther's Table Talk

     in virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause

Related terms

• retrude
• retrusive

Anagrams

• Ritenours, neuristor, routiners