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diffluent

[ dif-loo-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. tending to flow off or away.
  2. easily dissolving.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of diffluent1

1610–20; < Latin diffluent- (stem of diffluēns, present participle of diffluere ), equivalent to dif- dif- + fluent- flowing; fluent

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Example Sentences

In the genus Elaphomyces, the asci are more than commonly diffluent.

The new-born infant is a spinal being, with an unformed diffluent brain, composed largely of water.

The diffluent imagination is another general form, but one that is completely opposed to the foregoing.

Thus the diffluent imagination is, trait for trait, the opposite of the plastic imagination.

Here we come away from the vague forms; the diffluent imagination becomes substantial and asserts itself through its permanence.

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