Noun: efflation
| Singular | efflation |
| Plural | efflations |
Sample Sentences
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a soft efflation of celestial fire [a. 1718, Thomas Parnell, David:]
Nouns inflected like efflation
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin efflātiō (“exhalation”), from Latin efflō (“to exhale”), from ex- (“out, away”) + flō (“to blow”). See: Latin Nouns '
efflātiō', Latin Nouns '
efflō'.