Definition of "congealment" []

• The act of congealing (noun)
• Something that has congealed; a clot (noun)

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• "As the day wore on there was above all a sense of congealment – and also of gathering confusion, of the impossibility of ever really understanding anything at all."
• "And, above all, a sense of congealment, of a handsomely branded stasis."
• "He sat back in his chair and folded his arms, staring at his wife while his dinner began its steady decline into congealment."