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Suffusion

Suffusion \Suf*fu"sion\, n. [L. suffusio: cf. F. suffusion.]

  1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.

    To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color.
    --Ray.

  2. That with which a thing is suffused.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suffusion

late 14c., from Latin suffusionem (nominative suffusio) "a pouring over," noun of action from past participle stem of suffundere "pour upon, overspread, suffuse," from sub "under" (see sub-) + fundere "to pour" (see found (v.2)).

Wiktionary
suffusion

n. 1 (context countable English) The act of pouring a liquid over something. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of being wet. 3 (context uncountable English) The state of becoming red on the surface.

WordNet
suffusion

n. the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance [syn: permeation, pervasion]

Usage examples of "suffusion".

According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.

According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.

Against this soft suffusion of light the Library cupola assumed a Bramantesque grace, the white steeple of the congregational church became a campanile topped by a winged spirit, and the scant porticoes of the older halls the colonnades of classic temples.

There was a comforting agglomeration of colors, although not the usual spectrum of heat suffusions that came from, for example, a human.

I notice I have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Carntrip, and our passing through Briceland again on our way back to New York, but such suffusions of swimming colors are not to be disdained by the artist in recollection.