Hyalescence

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass. rare, uncountable

    "I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself."

Example

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"I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself."

Etymology

From hyaline + -escence.

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