EFFERVESCENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does effervescence mean? 

• EFFERVESCENCE (noun)
  The noun EFFERVESCENCE has 2 senses:

1. the process of bubbling as gas escapes

2. the property of giving off bubbles

  Familiarity information: EFFERVESCENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFERVESCENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of bubbling as gas escapes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("effervescence" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Derivation:

effervesce (become bubbly or frothy or foaming)

effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of giving off bubbles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bubbliness; effervescence; frothiness

Hypernyms ("effervescence" is a kind of...):

gaseousness (having the consistency of a gas)

Derivation:

effervesce (become bubbly or frothy or foaming)

effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)

 Context examples 

She laughed at my sudden Irish effervescence. "Why not?" she said.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Franz and Emil are jolly little lads, quite after my own heart, for the mixture of German and American spirit in them produces a constant state of effervescence.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A small particle or grain containing a medicinal agent in a dry mixture usually composed of sodium bicarbonate, citric acid, and tartaric acid which, when in contact with water, has the capability to release gas, resulting in effervescence.

(Effervescent Granule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

“Do you know, I am filled with a strange uplift; I feel as if all time were echoing through me, as though all powers were mine. I know truth, divine good from evil, right from wrong. My vision is clear and far. I could almost believe in God. But,” and his voice changed and the light went out of his face,—“what is this condition in which I find myself? this joy of living? this exultation of life? this inspiration, I may well call it? It is what comes when there is nothing wrong with one’s digestion, when his stomach is in trim and his appetite has an edge, and all goes well. It is the bribe for living, the champagne of the blood, the effervescence of the ferment—that makes some men think holy thoughts, and other men to see God or to create him when they cannot see him.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)