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noun suffix
Etymology: Middle French, from Latin -escentia, from -escent-, -escens + -ia -y
state or process of becoming <obsolescence>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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-escence — [es′əns] [L escentia < escens: see ESCENT] suffix forming nouns the process of becoming or beginning [obsolescence] … English World dictionary
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-escence — es·cence … English syllables
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fluorescence — 1852, glowing in ultraviolet light, coined by English mathematician and physicist Sir George G. Stokes (1819 1903) from fluorspar (see FLUORINE (Cf. fluorine)), because in it he first noticed the phenomenon, + ESCENCE (Cf. escence), on analogy of … Etymology dictionary
luminescence — 1884, from L. lumen (gen. luminis) light (see LUMINOUS (Cf. luminous)) + ESCENCE (Cf. escence). Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Prof. E. Wiedmann has made a new study of these phenomena. He proposes the general name luminescence for evolutions… … Etymology dictionary
