valences
- plural of valence.
Example Sentences
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Spirituality takes on previously unconsidered valences in the canvases of Wally Hedrick and Carlos Villa.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
The emotional valences are thus much more complicated this time around, and to accommodate the complexities, the picture is close to three hours long, the longest of the series by far.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2023
In this sense, Mitchell’s and Minnelli’s appearances carried slightly different emotional valences.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022
For Umrigar, “India” is another word with many valences.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2022
In those compounds which consist of two elements directly combined, the union is between such numbers of the two atoms as have equal valences.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William