effervescence
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French effervescence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɛfə(ɹ)ˈvɛsəns/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
effervescence (countable and uncountable, plural effervescences)
- The escape of gas from solution in a liquid, especially the escape of carbon dioxide from a carbonated drink.
- Vivacity.
- Foment.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “George Washington and Benjamin Franklin”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume II, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 35810401:
- We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.
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Related terms
- effervesce
- effervescent
Translations
the escape of gas from solution in a liquid
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French
Etymology
From Latin effervescens + -ence.
Pronunciation
Audio (Switzerland) (file)
Noun
effervescence f (plural effervescences)
- effervescence
Related terms
- effervescent
Further reading
- “effervescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.