Meaning

The process of flowing inward and pooling..

Definitions by Sense

1. The process of flowing inward and pooling.
2. A growing feeling or internal sensation that causes one to feel emotionally full.
3. That flows inward and pools, or gives a sense of emotional fullness.

Example Sentences

The last stages of deformation were accompanied by, or followed by, the inwelling or injection of magmas along the Keweenaw thrust plane.

A similar bottom inwelling occurs in the Northern Baltic (Hobro and Nyquist 1971).

Thus, there are three primary sources of nutrients and materials for the coastal marine ecosystem (Fig. 2-4): 1) inwelling of materials from oceanic waters bu current, wind, and wave action; 2) upwelling from deep ocean waters; and 3) outwelling from estuariene and terrestrial environments.

Outwellings and inwellings will meet at the boundary layers.

If you examine some of the planets and Sun in the Solar System you will see that 'energy inwelling's' seem to occur at either 19.5 degrees south or north of the equator.

Like the prodigal son, "when he came to himself" when her long slumbering conscience awoke , and she felt the soft, gentle inwelling of a now thoroughly aroused soul, which made her realize a great-hearted, universal charity for erring humanity, there rose also a great pity in her heart for the lover of her youth, her long deserted, neglected husband.

This dark, passionate religiousness and inward sense of an inwelling magnificence, direct flow from the unknowable God, this filled Richard's heart first, and human love seemed such a fighting for candle-light, when the dark is so much better.

This inwelling energy vibrates at the frequency of the Fourth Heaven, and it is not a pipeline that linearly transports fuel from one location to another, but a holographic well.

Word Forms

• inwellings

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