effluvium
noun
a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious.
effluvia
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pluralof effluvium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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One turbine spins in the fiery effluvia of engine exhaust, with temperatures around 1,000 degrees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Many Wallingford houses were built to avoid the hellish view of tower effluvia.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
The Times leader writer, Oliver Kamm, author of Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English, says that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2017
Shuttered mining operations let metal-laden effluvia seep into the waterways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2017
Thus, he carefully closes his bed-chamber against its entrance, and prefers that his lungs should receive the mixed effluvia from his cellar and larder, and from a patent little modern aquarius, in lieu of it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
