effervescence
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French effervescence.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
effervescence (countable and uncountable, plural effervescences)
- The escape of gas from solution in a liquid, especially the escape of carbon dioxide from a carbonated drink.
- Vivacity.
- Foment.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “George Washington and Benjamin Franklin”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume II, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
- We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.
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Translations edit
the escape of gas from solution in a liquid
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French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin effervescens + -ence.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
effervescence f (plural effervescences)
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Further reading edit
- “effervescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.