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refluency

refluency is the alternative form of refluence.

Meaning of refluence

Noun

refluence (countable and uncountable, plural refluences)

  1. The state or quality of being refluent, of flowing back.
  2. A flowing back.
    • Scared by the faith they feigned, each priestly slave
      Knelt for his mercy whom they served with blood,
      And, like the refluence of a mighty wave
      Sucked into the loud sea, the multitude
      With crushing panic, fled in terror’s altered mood.1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...

Questions about refluency

What is refluency the alternative form of?
Refluency is the alternative form of refluence.

Words near refluency in the dictionary

  1. refluctuating
  2. refluctuation
  3. refluctuations
  4. refluence
  5. refluences
  6. refluency
  7. refluent
  8. refluff
  9. refluffed
  10. refluffing
  11. refluffs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refluency (page history and authors); refluence (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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