effervescence
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
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.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the escape of gas from solution in a liquid
|
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin effervescens + -ence.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Switzerland) (file)
Noun[edit]
effervescence f (plural effervescences)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “effervescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms suffixed with -escence
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms suffixed with -ence
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns