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incalescence

UK/ɪnkəˈlɛsəns/US/ɪnkəˈlɛsəns/

incalescence noun: the state of being incalescent, or growing warm; calescence.

Noun

incalescence (usually uncountable, plural incalescences)

  1. (obsolete, usually) The state of being incalescent, or growing warm; calescence.
    • But Averroes, a man of his own faith, was of another belief; restraining his ebriety unto hilarity, and in effect making no more thereof than Seneca commendeth, and was allowable in Cato; that is, a sober incalescence and regulated aestuation from wine; or, what may be conceived between Joseph and...1835, Thomas Browne, Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns

Forms of incalescence

pluralincalescences

Words that rhyme with incalescence

Questions about incalescence

What does incalescence mean?
Incalescence means the state of being incalescent, or growing warm; calescence.
What part of speech is incalescence?
Incalescence is a noun.
How do you pronounce incalescence?
Incalescence is pronounced /ɪnkəˈlɛsəns/ (UK).
What is the plural of incalescence?
The plural of incalescence is incalescences.

Words near incalescence in the dictionary

  1. incalcitrant
  2. incalculability
  3. incalculable
  4. incalculableness
  5. incalculably
  6. incalescence
  7. incalescences
  8. incalescency
  9. incalescent
  10. incall
  11. incalls

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