Definition of "effusion" []

• The act or an instance of effusing. (noun)
• Liquid or other matter poured forth. (noun)
• An unrestrained outpouring of feeling, as in speech or writing: "the devout effusions of sacred eloquence” ( Edmund Burke). (noun)
• Pathology The seeping of serous, purulent, or bloody fluid into a body cavity or tissue. (noun)
• Pathology The effused fluid. (noun)

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• "But the real pleasure of this posthumous effusion is the sheer joy the author evinces in showing off generous measures of tendentiousness and his undoubted historiographical bona fides."
• "Albertine, a harshness which substituted for the original love a new love composed of pity, emotion, of the need of effusion, which is only a variant of the former love, that is not to be found also in this scene:"
• "Pleurisy, with effusion, which is to be considered of tuberculous origin if no other cause can be proved."