diffluent
Americanadjective
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tending to flow off or away.
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easily dissolving.
Etymology
Origin of diffluent
1610–20; < Latin diffluent- (stem of diffluēns, present participle of diffluere ), equivalent to dif- dif- + fluent- flowing; see fluent
Example Sentences
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It was a condition chiefly confined to the caudal end, the sarcode having became diffluent, hyaline, and intensely rapid in the protrusion and retraction of its substance, while the nuclear body becomes enormously enlarged.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
Analysis, indeed, discovers a certain class of ill-understood images, which I call emotional abstractions, and which are the proper material for the diffluent imagination.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
Thus the diffluent imagination is, trait for trait, the opposite of the plastic imagination.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
The music of "Sleep On!" is very sweet, and I have never seen heroic verse in which the rhyme was less obtrusive or the rhythm more diffluent.
From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie
Related to diffluent imagination, especially in the latter's affective form, it has its own special characters, which we shall try to separate out.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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