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immersive

immersive

15 5.5
It makes you feel like you are inside an experience or place
  • adjective
  • /ɪˈmɜːrsɪv/
translation icon : inmersivo
  • The virtual reality game provided an immersive environment where players could interact with each other.
  • an immersive experience
  • an immersive environment
  • immersive engineering

I've been on a little storytelling immersive experience tour.

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Examples

  • The inclusion of sounds and music is what turns a simple audio tour into a truly immersive experience.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Students enter into a brief immersive experience with cultural others who are also either ecclesial others or religious others.

    Academic text (2014)
  • You came here because it's an immersive experience.

  • It's really immersive and fun to play with other real people.

  • Basically I just want it to be a really immersive experience.

  • And I think it's important to create immersive worlds that people can get lost in.

  • - Secret Cinema is a film organization that essentially creates immersive film experiences where the audience become part of a story.

  • Thanks to Unity, prepare to participate in a fully immersive video-game-like experience with Episode 6.

    Academic text (2014)
  • All of these components come together to enable rich, immersive, interactive genres that can be extremely expressive.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The immersive exhibit made visitors feel as if they were walking through an ancient city.

Synonyms

engrossing
vsimmersive
8 5.1

So interesting that it holds your full attention

gives the feeling of being inside rather than just focused
absorbing
vsimmersive
3.9

Very interesting and keeps your full attention

creates a strong sense of being inside the experience
hypnotizing
vsimmersive
4.7

Holding your attention so you cannot stop looking or thinking

creates presence in the environment instead of a trance focus

Antonyms

182 1.3

Not interesting or lively

20 1.4

Not exciting and likely to make people bored

How Immersive

consuming
5.4
immersive
15 5.5
absorbing
3.9
engaging
12 3.5

Surface Forms

immersive positive

Morphology

immersive = immerse (transparent) = immerse + ive

The adjective is a regular adjective-forming derivation from the verb 'immerse' and directly conveys 'tending to immerse' or 'causing immersion', which learners can infer from the base.

Etymology

Immersive comes from the verb immerse, which is built from in- 'into' and mergere 'to plunge'. It is like the words merge and submerge, so an immersive experience makes you feel 'plunged into' the scene and fully involved.