effervescence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French effervescence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛfə(ɹ)ˈvɛsəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

effervescence (countable and uncountable, plural effervescences)

2. The escape of gas from solution in a liquid, especially the escape of carbon dioxide from a carbonated drink.
3. Vivacity.
4. 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:

     We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.

Related terms

• effervesce
• effervescent

Translations

the escape of gas from solution in a liquid

• Bulgarian: кипене (bg) n (kipene), шупване (bg) n (šupvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冒泡 (zh) (màopào)

• Finnish: kuohunta (fi)
• French: effervescence (fr) f
• German: Sprudeln (de) n
• Irish: broidearnach f
• Spanish: efervescencia (es) f

French

Etymology

From Latin effervescens ‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

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Noun

effervescence f (plural effervescences)

1. effervescence

Related terms

• effervescent

Further reading

• “effervescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.