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Effluxion

//ɛˈflʌk.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of flowing out. countable, uncountable

    "We all age through the effluxion of time."

  2. 2
    That which has flowed out. countable, uncountable

    "the effluxion of a boil"

Etymology

From efflux + -ion, from Latin effluxus, from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”).

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