hyalescence

English

Etymology

From hyaline +‎ -escence.

Noun

hyalescence (uncountable)

1. The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
   • 1991, Rebecca Goldstein, The Dark Sister, Penguin Books, published 1993, page 128:

     I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hyalescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)