inwelling

plural inwellings

1. The process of flowing inward and pooling.

   Outwellings and inwellings will meet at the boundary layers.

   1984, W. O'Reilly, Magnetism, Planetary Rotation, and Convection in the Solar System, page 368

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

   1929, Wisconsin Geological, Natural History Survey, Bulletin, page 116

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

   1973, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Kenneth Orris Emery, Structural Framework of the Sunda Shelf, page 164

   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.

   1980, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Characterization of the Sea Island Coastal Region of South Carolina and Georgia, page 32

   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.

   2020, David Klooz, The Eye of Ra: Robbers of the Sacred Stone, page 174

2. A growing feeling or internal sensation that causes one to feel emotionally full.

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   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.

   1890, Emma E. H. Specht, Alfrieda: A Novel, page 196

1. not comparableThat flows inward and pools, or gives a sense of emotional fullness.

   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.

   2009, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light, page 454

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   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.

   1923, David Herbert Lawrence, Kangaroo, page 385