Effervescence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Effervescence \Ef`fer*ves"cence\, Effervescency
  \Ef`fer*ves"cen*cy\, n. [Cf. F. effervescence.]
     A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which
     takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous
     form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the
     effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  effervescence
       n 1: the process of bubbling as gas escapes
       2: the property of giving off bubbles [syn: {bubbliness}, {frothiness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "effervescence":
     ado, agitation, animation, assibilation, boiling, breeziness,
     briskness, brouhaha, bubbliness, bubbling, buoyancy, bustle, buzz,
     carbonation, commotion, disturbance, ebullience, ebulliency,
     ebullition, eddy, effervescency, effervescing, embroilment, energy,
     exuberance, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fizz, fizzing,
     fizzle, fizzling, flurry, foaming, frication, frictional rustling,
     frothiness, frothing, fume, hiss, hissing, hurly-burly, hurry,
     hurry-scurry, hush, hushing, life, lisp, liveliness, moxie,
     pell-mell, pep, peppiness, perturbation, piss and vinegar, pizzazz,
     rhonchus, ruffle, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilation, siffle,
     sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, sneeze, sneezing,
     sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, sparkle, spirit,
     spiritedness, spit, splutter, sprightliness, spumescence, sputter,
     squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, stir, swirl,
     swirling, swish, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, verve,
     vim, vivaciousness, vivacity, vortex, wheeze, whirl, whish,
     whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, yeastiness, zip