different between effusion vs emanation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin eff?si? (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English ?gotennes.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

effusion (countable and uncountable, plural effusions)

1. A liquid outpouring.
2. (chemistry) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
3. (figuratively, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
   • 1930; George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby; Animal Crackers, Paramount Pictures

     Captain Spaulding: My friends, I am highly gratified by this magnificent display of effusion […]

4. (medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French effusion, borrowed from Latin effusio, effusionem.

Noun

effusion f (plural effusions)

1. effusion

Further reading

• “effusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Etymology

From emanate.

Noun

emanation (countable and uncountable, plural emanations)

1. The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.
2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.

   Perfume is an emanation from a flower.

3. (uncountable, obsolete, chemistry) The element radon.
4. (theology) The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.

Translations

See also

• evolution

Anagrams

• anamniote