effluvium

1. 1.

   a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste)

   Broaderdischarge

Other forms of effluvium

plural

effluvia

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 effluvium

What does effluvium mean?

effluvium means "a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste)".

How many syllables are in effluvium?

effluvium has 4 syllables: ef-flu-vi-um. The stress falls on "flu".

Is effluvium a common word?

effluvium 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.