EFFLORESCENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does efflorescence mean? 

• EFFLORESCENCE (noun)
  The noun EFFLORESCENCE has 4 senses:

1. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

2. any red eruption of the skin

3. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

4. a powdery deposit on a surface

  Familiarity information: EFFLORESCENCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFLORESCENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

bloom; blossom; efflorescence; flower; flush; heyday; peak; prime

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

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "efflorescence"):

golden age (a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any red eruption of the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

efflorescence; rash; roseola; skin rash

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

eruption (symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "efflorescence"):

heat rash; miliaria; prickly heat (obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity)

hives; nettle rash; urticaria; urtication (an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

anthesis; blossoming; efflorescence; florescence; flowering; inflorescence

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

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Derivation:

effloresce (come into or as if into flower)

efflorescent (bursting into flower)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A powdery deposit on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

bloom; efflorescence

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

crystallisation; crystallization; crystallizing (the formation of crystals)