English Explanatory Dictionary

emollescence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.

Word forms

emollescence

Etymology

From Latin e (“out”) + mollescere, inchoate from mollere (“to be soft”), mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, e- + Latin moll- + -escence.

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