Definition for Effluvium:

• Effluvia; the minute and generally invisible particles which exhale from bodies, as the odour of plants; the noxious exhalations from putrefying animal or vegetable substances.

Synonyms for Effluvium:

• n.

  •drainage (noun)
  • sewerages,
  • drain waters,
  • waste waters.
  •effusion (noun)
  • dis-charge,
  • dis charge,
  • pourings,
  • dis charges,
  • dis-charges.
  •emanation (noun)
  • exhaust,
  • smell.
  •fetor (noun)
  • miasma,
  • halitosis,
  • putrefaction.
  •fog (noun)
  • pea soups,
  • london fogs,
  • visibility zero-zeroes,
  • visibility zerozeros,
  • visibility zerozero,
  • visibility zero-zeros,
  • visibility zero zero,
  • visibility zero zeroes,
  • visibility zero zeros,
  • visibility zerozeroes,
  • ground cloud,
  • smazes.
  •fumes (noun)
  • ex-halation,
  • ex halation,
  • ex halations,
  • ex-halations.
  •gas (noun)
  • volatile substance.
  •outflow (noun)
  • gushing outpourings,
  • streamings,
  • out flow,
  • out flows.
  •outpouring (noun)
  • effusion.
  •reek (noun)
  • mephitises,
  • fetors.
  •substance (noun)
  • effluvium.
  •vapor (noun)
  • dampnesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • dampness,
  • discharge,
  • drainage,
  • effluence,
  • effluent,
  • efflux,
  • emanation,
  • emission,
  • exhalation,
  • exudate,
  • fetor,
  • fog,
  • fumes,
  • gas,
  • mephitis,
  • nature,
  • odor,
  • outflow,
  • pea soup,
  • reek,
  • sewerage,
  • soup,
  • vapor,
  • vapour,
  • wordiness,
  • Exudates,
  • SMAZE,
  • soups,
  • drain water,
  • waste water,
  • effluences,
  • effluents,
  • ground clouds,
  • gushings,
  • out-flow,
  • out-flows,
  • visibility zero-zero,
  • gushing outpouring.

Effluvium Sentence Examples:

• Still another rural element was not wanting, in the form of that far - diffused, infragrant effluvium, which, diluted by a good half mile of pure atmosphere, is no longer odious, nay is positively agreeable, to many who have long known it, though its source and centre has an unenviable reputation.

• Thus, in Gilbert's philosophy air was the earth's effluvium and was responsible for the unordered motion of objects towards the earth.

Homophones for Effluvium:

• epilobium.

Hyponym for Effluvium:

• n.

  • substance
    discharge, emission.