Involution

//ɪnvəˈluːʃən//

"Involution" in a Sentence (4 examples)

[…]usually his attention was diverted from her feet by her shrieks of laughter and the astounding involutions of her huge brown-yellow frame.

‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum.’

1917, James Huneker, Unicorns, New York: Scribner, Chapter 11 “Style and Rhythm in English Prose,” p. 129, Walter Pater’s essay on Style is honeycombed with involutions and preciosity.

Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.

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