diffluent
Americanadjective
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tending to flow off or away.
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easily dissolving.
Etymology
Origin of diffluent
1610–20; < Latin diffluent- (stem of diffluēns, present participle of diffluere ), equivalent to dif- dif- + fluent- flowing; fluent
Example Sentences
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Related to diffluent imagination, especially in the latter's affective form, it has its own special characters, which we shall try to separate out.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
The new-born infant is a spinal being, with an unformed diffluent brain, composed largely of water.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
We shall see that its opposite, diffluent imagination, is that which depends least upon that factor, or is most free from it.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
The diffluent imagination is another general form, but one that is completely opposed to the foregoing.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
It was a condition chiefly confined to the caudal end, the sarcode having became diffluent, hyaline, and intensely rapid in the protrusion and retraction of its substance, while the nuclear body becomes enormously enlarged.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
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