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hyalescence en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌhaɪ.əˈlɛs.əns/

Etymology

From hyaline + -escence.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
    • I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself. 1991, Rebecca Goldstein, The Dark Sister, Penguin Books, published 1993, page 128: