Suffusion SUFFU'SION, n. [L. suffusio.]
1. The act or operation of overspreading, as with a fluid or with a color.
2. The state of being suffused or spread over.
To those that have the jaundice or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color.
3. That which is suffused or spread over.

suffusion n 1: the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance [syn: permeation, pervasion, suffusion]

suffusion 14c., from L. suffusionem (nom. suffusio) "a pouring over," from pp. stem of suffundere "pour upon, overspread, suffuse," from sub "under" + fundere "to pour."

suffusion noun see suffuse

Suffusion \Suf*fu"sion\, n. [L. suffusio: cf. F. suffusion.] 1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading. To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. --Ray. 2. That with which a thing is suffused. 3. (Zo["o]l.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "suffusion": blush, blushing, coloring, crimsoning, decoction, diffusion, flush, flushing, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, mantling, marination, overrunning, overspreading, overswarming, penetration, permeation, pervasion, pudency, pudicity, reddening, saturation, soaking, steeping, transfusion

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