effusion

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) A liquid outpouring.
2. (countable, uncountable) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
3. (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
4. (countable, uncountable) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

Opposite of

infusion

Synonyms

eruption

outburst

emission

outpouring

outflow

gush

ejection

ebullition

gushiness

blowup

shedding

diffusion

extravasation

suffusion

percolation

injection

jeremiad

joviality

outlet

overflow

overrun

permeation

pervasion

pervasiveness

pouring out

run-off

run-out

screed

slop

spewing

spouting

tirade

venting

escape of fluid

interfusion

acting out

out-of-range

spill-out

slopover

discharge

dripping

effluence

efflux

egress

emanation

extraction

exudation

flow

flux

fluxion

Translations

effusion

effusione

efusión

épanchement

uitstorting

Erguss

efusão

arrebato

😡

efusió

efflusso

Ausströmen

effusio

arravatament

broll

افاض

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin effūsiō (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English āgotennes.