hyalescence

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/ˌhaɪ.əˈlɛs.əns/

noun

The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.

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Meanings

nounhyalescence (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableThe 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

Origin

From hyaline + -escence.

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APA

hyalescence. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyalescence

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“hyalescence.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyalescence. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hyalescence,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyalescence.

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