diffluent

[ dif-loo-uh nt ]

/ ˈdɪf lu ənt /

tending to flow off or away.

easily dissolving.

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

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