Meaning & use
Suffusion
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The spreading of something, such as color, light, or a feeling, throughout or over a surface.
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A suffusion of pink light spread across the sky at dawn.
A slow suffusion of warmth filled the room as the fire caught.
A note on using this word
Suffusion comes from the Latin suffundere, 'to pour beneath,' and is often used poetically to describe color or emotion spreading gradually.
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