Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun involution

6 senses of involution

Sense 1
involution -- (reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth))
       => organic process, biological process -- (a process occurring in living organisms)

Sense 2
involution -- (a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction)
       => construction, grammatical construction, expression -- (a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner")

Sense 3
elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution -- (marked by elaborately complex detail)
       => complexity, complexness -- (the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers")

Sense 4
engagement, participation, involvement, involution -- (the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities")
       => group action -- (action taken by a group of people)

Sense 5
exponentiation, involution -- (the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power)
       => mathematical process, mathematical operation, operation -- ((mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic")

Sense 6
involution, enfolding -- (the action of enfolding something)
       => change of shape -- (an action that changes the shape of something)