effervescence

Borrowed from French effervescence.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛfə(ɹ)ˈvɛsəns/

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effervescence (countable and uncountable, plural effervescences)

1. The escape of gas from solution in a liquid, especially the escape of carbon dioxide from a carbonated drink.
2. Vivacity.
3. Foment.
   • 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “George Washington and Benjamin Franklin”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume II, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

     We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.

• effervesce
• effervescent

From Latin effervescens +‎ -ence.

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effervescence f (plural effervescences)

1. effervescence

• effervescent

• “effervescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.