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Effluence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or an instance of flowing out.

n. Something that flows out or forth; an emanation: "tremendous emotional effluences that affected blocks of people at a time, causing them to walk faster” ( Coleman Dowell).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The process of flowing out.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A flowing out, or emanation.

n. That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of flowing out; outflow; emanation.

n. That which issues or flows out; an effiux; an emanation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the process of flowing out

Word Usage

"One kind of effluence goes from the perceiving organ to the object of perception; another kind goes from the object of perception to the organ."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

flow

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

issue efflux outflow emanation effluxion

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

doodler dragg transcendence overeat omnipresence