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Involution

noun
1.
Reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth).
2.
A long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction.
3.
Marked by elaborately complex detail.  Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy.
4.
The act of sharing in the activities of a group.  Synonyms: engagement, involvement, participation.
5.
The process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.  Synonym: exponentiation.
6.
The action of enfolding something.  Synonym: enfolding.





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"Involution" Quotes from Famous Books



... misunderstandings arising from its unfitness. Here is a part of the caution:—"Evolution has other meanings, some of which are incongruous with, and some even directly opposed to, the meaning here given to it.... The antithetical word, Involution, would much more truly express the nature of the process; and would, indeed, describe better the secondary characters of the process which we shall have to deal with presently."[38] So that the meanings ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer
... Menander's. Some of them even go beyond the moral horizon of serious Comedy, and assume an almost stoical elevation. How was the transition from low farce to such elevation effected? And how could such maxims be at all introduced, without the same important involution of human relations as that which is exhibited in perfect Comedy? At all events, they are calculated to give us a very favourable idea of the Mimes. Horace, indeed, speaks slightingly of the literary merit of Laberius' Mimes, either on account of ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel


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