vaporescencen.
rare.
The fact of becoming vaporous. (In quots. figurative.)
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [noun] > becoming or making into vapour
vaporation1398
effumation1666
vaporization1799
vaporescence1843
vaporizing1845
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 395 It is by this kind of vaporescence, so to speak, by this flat, misty unison of parts, that nature [etc.].
Derivatives
vapoˈrescent adj. vaporizing.
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > becoming vapour
vaporescent1872
1872 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris 47 Their vaporescent point, at which riches..‘make to themselves wings’.
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