Efflorescence

Quick meaning: Efflorescence is a noun meaning (botany) The production of flowers.

Meaning

(botany) The production of flowers.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
2. (geology) An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid or geothermal environments.
3. (pathology) A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
4. (chemistry) The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere.
5. (construction) An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it.

Example Sentences

I’d hoped that when the black hole of the Donald Trump presidency ended, redirected energy might allow for a cultural efflorescence. So far that hasn’t happened.

1919, a time when African American hopes for a just future following their service in World War I were dashed by violent reassertions of white supremacy, including the efflorescence and expansion of the KKK into the Midwestern and northwestern U.S.

Word Forms

• efflorescences

Synonyms for efflorescence

Depending on context, synonyms include flush, prime, blossom, rash, peak, heyday.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eruption, flowering, blossoming, bloom, blossom, peak.

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