suffusion

Questions about suffusion

What does suffusion mean?

suffusion means "the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance".

How many syllables are in suffusion?

suffusion has 4 syllables and divides as suf-fu-si-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for suffusion?

Close synonyms include permeation, pervasion. 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 suffusion a common word?

suffusion 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.