Hyalescence
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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