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-escence

  1. a suffix of nouns denoting action or process, change, state or condition, etc., and corresponding to verbs ending in -esce or adjectives ending in -escent: convalescence; luminescence.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of -escence1

< Latin -ēscentia. See -esce, -ence

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