diffluent

American  

[dif-loo-uhnt] / ˈdɪf lu ənt /

adjective

1. tending to flow off or away.

2. easily dissolving.

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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

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

The bone had not apparently been sufficiently depressed to exert continuous pressure, but the cord was diffluent and actually destroyed over an area corresponding with the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh dorsal segments.

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

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

Here we come away from the vague forms; the diffluent imagination becomes substantial and asserts itself through its permanence.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen