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total immersionnoun [mass noun]1Immersion of the whole body in water, in particular as a form of baptism: more than 100 members of the sect were baptised in Florida, undergoing total immersion as is traditional...- Emphasis was on the use of running water, or total immersion in the case of babies.
- There's none of the theatricality of a total immersion baptism or some of the other rites of initiation favoured by other faiths.
- For the first time in my life, I was living in a sea of believing, faithful Christians, and the cold shock felt like total immersion.
1.1Complete mental involvement in something: the opportunity for total immersion in the language and culture [as modifier]: improve your French in a total-immersion course...- The only way he would be able to learn would be total immersion.
- The reward is in the doing, in the total immersion in the research, not in the outcome.
- At the same time, his total immersion in the military lifestyle had taken root.
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