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deliquescence

deliquescence noun: the condition of being deliquescent.

Noun

deliquescence (countable and uncountable, plural deliquescences)

  1. The condition of being deliquescent.
  2. The action or process of deliquescing (becoming liquid by absorbing water).
    • “The rococo is the final deliquescence of the baroque,” he said, as if he really couldn’t be plainer.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

deliquescence meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

deliquescence in Tamil

நீர்க்கும் இயல்பு, நீர்த்தல், நீர்மயமாகல், நீர்மயமாதல்

deliquescence in Tagalog

condition of being deliquescent
tagitubig

Forms of deliquescence

pluraldeliquescences

Origin of deliquescence

From deliquesce + -ence.

Questions about deliquescence

What does deliquescence mean?
Deliquescence means the condition of being deliquescent.
What is deliquescence in Tamil?
Deliquescence in Tamil is நீர்க்கும் இயல்பு, நீர்த்தல், நீர்மயமாகல். See Deliquescence meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is deliquescence?
Deliquescence is a noun.
What is the plural of deliquescence?
The plural of deliquescence is deliquescences.

Words near deliquescence in the dictionary

  1. deliquefies
  2. deliquefy
  3. deliquefying
  4. deliquesce
  5. deliquesced
  6. deliquescence
  7. deliquescences
  8. deliquescent
  9. deliquescently
  10. deliquesces
  11. deliquescing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deliquescence (page history and authors); deliquescence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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