efflorescence

Other forms of efflorescence

plural

efflorescences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about efflorescence

What does efflorescence mean?

efflorescence means "the period of greatest prosperity or productivity". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in efflorescence?

efflorescence has 4 syllables: ef-flo-re-scence. The stress falls on "flo".

What is another word for efflorescence?

Close synonyms include flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is efflorescence a common word?

efflorescence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.