florescence

[ flaw-res-uhns, floh-, fluh- ]

noun

1. the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.

florescence

/ flɔːˈrɛsəns /

noun

1. the process, state, or period of flowering

Other Words From

• flo·rescent adjective
• reflo·rescence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of florescence¹

1785–95; < Latin flōrēsc ( ēns ) (present participle of flōrēscere to begin blooming, inchoative derivative of flōrēre to bloom, derivative of flōs flower ) + -ence

Word History and Origins

Origin of florescence¹

C18: from New Latin flōrēscentia , from Latin flōrēscere to come into flower

Example Sentences

Mr. Latham was a strapping Texan who first made his name on the East Coast in the 1970s, embarking on his magazine career when the movement known as New Journalism was in florescence.

From Washington Post

Long after the Tabasco platform was erected, during a monument-building florescence spanning most of the first millennium C.E. called the Classic Period, generations of Maya lavished attention on calculating the dates of new and full Moons, sorting out the challenging arithmetic of the lunar cycle’s ungainly 29.53 days.

From Science Magazine

Their RNA converted into a single strand of DNA, awash with the enzymes and chemical markers that would target the coronavirus, and, if present, emit an impulse of light as it bonded, a brief and measurable florescence.

From Los Angeles Times

What we see in the show itself is not suppression but florescence.

From New York Times

They in turn are part of a broader florescence of nature-writing in Britain led by Robert Macfarlane, whose book, “The Old Ways”, perambulates around the country’s ancient byways.

From Economist