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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The spinal cord was practically gone between the levels of the fourth and seventh dorsal vertebræ, and diffluent from myelitis up to the third cervical.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
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
There yet remains for us to study two important varieties that I connect with the diffluent imagination.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
But the sense of the infinite fusibility and change in the objective world is deeper than that revealed in any one type of diffluent imagination.
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
We shall see that its opposite, diffluent imagination, is that which depends least upon that factor, or is most free from it.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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