hyalescence
/ˌhaɪ.əˈlɛs.əns/
hyalescence noun: the process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
Noun
hyalescence (uncountable)
- The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
- 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.1991, Rebecca Goldstein, The Dark Sister, Penguin Books, published 1993, page 128
Origin of hyalescence
From hyaline + -escence.
Questions about hyalescence
- What does hyalescence mean?
- Hyalescence means the process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
- What part of speech is hyalescence?
- Hyalescence is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hyalescence?
- Hyalescence is pronounced /ˌhaɪ.əˈlɛs.əns/.
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