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  1. effluvianoun

    Plural form of effluvium.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Effluvia, Effluviumnoun

    Those small particles which are continually flying off from bodies; the subtilty and fineness of which appears from their being able, a long time together, to produce very sensible effects, without any sensible diminution of the body from whence they arise. John Quincy

    Etymology: from effluc, Latin.

    If the earth were an electrick body, and the air but the effluvium thereof, we might perhaps believe that from attraction, and by effluxion, bodies tended to the earth. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 2.

    Neither the earth’s diurnal revolution upon its axis, nor any magnetick effluvia of the earth, nor the air, or atmosphere which environs the earth, can produce gravity. John Woodward.

    If these effluvia, which do upward tend,
    Because less heavy than the air, ascend;
    Why do they ever from their height retreat,
    And why return to seek their central seat? Richard Blackmore, Creat.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Effluvia

    of Effluvium

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of effluvia in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of effluvia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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