Definition of "suffusion" []

• The act of pouring a liquid over something. (noun)
• The state of being wet. (noun)
• The state of becoming red on the surface. (noun)

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• "The tenderness of their green appeared under the glaucous mantle; while that grey suffusion, which is the blush of green life, spread its damask chastity."
• "And as quickly as it had come to me, that sense of purpose, of belonging, it has dissipated, leaving behind only the warm suffusion of what there might someday be."
• "I had longed for that twisted suffusion of cells, that genre of lovemaking that only our kind can do."