diffluent

[ dif-loo-uh nt ]

/ ˈdɪf lu ənt /

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adjective

tending to flow off or away.

easily dissolving.

Nearby words

difficulty, diffidence, diffident, diffidently, diffluence, diffluent, difflugia, diffract, diffraction, diffraction grating, diffraction halo

Origin of diffluent

1610–20; < Latin diffluent- (stem of diffluēns, present participle of diffluere), equivalent to dif- dif- + fluent- flowing; see fluent

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Examples from the Web for diffluent

We shall see that its opposite, diffluent imagination, is that which depends least upon that factor, or is most free from it.
Essay on the Creative Imagination|Th. Ribot
To sum up—In this form of the diffluent imagination the emotional factor exercises supreme authority.
Essay on the Creative Imagination|Th. Ribot
The diffluent imagination is another general form, but one that is completely opposed to the foregoing.
Essay on the Creative Imagination|Th. Ribot
Thus the diffluent imagination is, trait for trait, the opposite of the plastic imagination.
Essay on the Creative Imagination|Th. Ribot

Diffluent, said of the gills when they dissolve into a fluid.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.|George Francis Atkinson