Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A condition, time, or period of flowering. See Synonyms at bloom1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a bursting into flower; the state of being in bloom; inflorescence; anthesis.
- n. A flowering or blossoming out; growth; development; maturity.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Etymologies
- New Latin flōrēscentia, from Latin flōrēscēns, flōrēscent-, present participle of flōrēscere, inchoative of flōrēre, to flower, bloom; see flourish. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Although, like Crash, Lord Horror is composed in conventional narrative, it is not what it seems; it is an intricate tableau, or rather a series of tableaux, a florescence from a central idea, which we expanded into picaresque forms that really make no overall narrative sense.”
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
“I was sitting on the floor with my back resting against the tub, washed in florescence, the door closed and locked.”
Clapping games… : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“The low-watt florescence lights, the sweet edgy smells, the greetings with hands so dry they feel like crushed autumn leaves.”
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“This is the florescence and each one of these is a seed," noted Indupulapati Rao who is studying Brachiaria at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, the third largest city in Colombia.”
Voice of America: Special Grass for Livestock Could Cut Greenhouse Gases
“Gigantism during the florescence of adaptive release and dwarfism later as resources are maxed out?”
“But this florescence of mass bohemianism did not occur in a political vacuum; the counterculture, with its half-conscious invention of new forms of masculinity, was one element of the thriving social-movement sector of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“Still, The Farm coalesced during the florescence of gay liberation, and so Stephen's virtual silence on the subject proves historically significant. 19”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“The wonderful florescence of communication ignited by the Internet contains countless voices riffing on the journalism of others but not so many that do serious reporting of their own.”
“After that florescence of filial feeling one century ago, Mother's Day (which had an earlier post-Civil War pacifist moment) zoomed on and became an official national holiday in 1914.”
“A fluorescence, or florescence, something dendritic.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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A Refined Lexicon
ambivalence, ambivalent, equivocal, equivocation, equivocate, prevaricate, prevarication, quietude, quiescent, quiescence, vanquish, pluviosity and 137 more...
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emetic, emend, emollient, emolument, encomiastic, aeon, epaulet, epistemology, eulogy, euphony, evince, exchequer and 97 more...
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stpeter's Words
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NihonGoose's Words
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They Grow on You
accrescent, acescent, adipescent, alkalescent, contabescent, convalescent, decrescent, deliquescent, equicrescent, excrescent, fervescent, flavescent and 27 more...
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The Scences
acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, bioluminescence, candescence, chemiluminescence, coalescence, concrescence, concupiscence, convalescence, defervescence, dehiscence and 45 more...
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The Whole World
He seemed to feel that if you examined any one word closely enough, the whole world would open up.
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