enfolding
- noun
- /ɪnˈfoʊldɪŋ/
:
envoltura
- The artist described the enfolding layers of paint as essential to the depth of the artwork.
Examples
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Consciousness, enfolding - and enfolded - defines its own reality.
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And I tell her, tell her with my palms, with this enfolding and inviting in and holy hush:
Blog text (22) -
And so, compelled by deities, in the silence, in the enfolding darkness, the long-dead queen steeled herself to stillness and patience.
Fiction book (1992) -
This figure has a fairly obvious mimetic function: to reflect the reciprocity of these marriages, enacting the equality of the relationship in the enfoldings of the figure.
Fiction book (1996) -
He would often go beyond the actual event of which he had been a part and begin to tell of the bride and groom's escape from the happy throng of well-wishers, of their being alone at last in some luxurious hotel room or suite of rooms, and of their at first timid and then more and more eager enfolding of each other in the hot ecstasies of the wedding night.
Fiction book (1997) -
The enfolding of the warm blanket made her feel safe on the cold night.
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The gardener created an enfolding pattern with the flowers that surrounded the path.
Synonyms
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1.5
Placing something over another thing to protect or hide it
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4.4
Closing off an area by surrounding it with a fence or barrier
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7.0
A complete covering that surrounds something
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6.8
A cover that surrounds and protects something
Surrounding something on all sides and covering it completely
Wrapping something in cloth or a blanket to protect it
Putting something inside or around another thing to protect it
Surrounding something on all sides like a ring
How Enclosed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Enfolding comes from en- meaning 'in' and fold meaning 'to bend or wrap', like when you 'fold' a blanket or use a folder to hold paper. So, enfolding means 'wrapping' or 'surrounding' something closely.