florescence

American  

[flaw-res-uhns, floh-, fluh-] / flɔˈrɛs əns, floʊ-, flə- /

noun

1. the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.

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florescence British  

/ flɔːˈrɛsəns /

noun

1. the process, state, or period of flowering

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Other Word Forms

• florescent adjective
• reflorescence noun

Etymology

Origin of florescence

1785–95; < Latin flōrēsc ( ēns ) (present participle of flōrēscere to begin blooming, inchoative derivative of flōrēre to bloom, derivative of flōs flower ) + -ence

Example Sentences

Mr. Latham was a strapping Texan who first made his name on the East Coast in the 1970s, embarking on his magazine career when the movement known as New Journalism was in florescence.

From Washington Post

What we see in the show itself is not suppression but florescence.

From New York Times

They in turn are part of a broader florescence of nature-writing in Britain led by Robert Macfarlane, whose book, “The Old Ways”, perambulates around the country’s ancient byways.

From Economist

After the ancestors of apes and monkeys split into two groups roughly 25 million years ago, apes underwent a remarkable florescence, evolving into more than 30 different types.

From Science Magazine

Woods’s use of the term florescence – the act of flowering – is an odd choice here.

From Forbes