obtrusion

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This, however, was a different order of obtrusion.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2011

The obtrusion of these two dead women upon Poe's subliminal nature is seen in the self-frustration of incipient amours before his marriage with a "consumptive angel" of 13, Virginia Clemm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Equally important is inappropriateness: "the linking of disparates, the collision of different mental spheres, the obtrusion into one context of what belongs in another."

From Time Magazine Archive

But her impatient spirit fretted against delay; and this senseless obtrusion of inanimate things,—angering her, as only the inanimate can,—drowned the still small voice of common-sense.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

The flicker, too, loves the apple tree and bores his own hole in upright limbs, as does the downy woodpecker, often with much noise and obtrusion of vigorous chips.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop