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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

déliquescence

The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.

Noun.

Spontaneous liquefaction in the air; a gradual melting or becoming liquid by absorption of water from the atmosphere.

See also: déliquescence

deliquescence ‎(countable and uncountable, plural deliquescences)

The condition of being deliquescent.
The action or process of deliquescing.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 11 (i),
  “The rococo is the final deliquescence of the baroque,” he said, as if he really couldn’t be plainer.

condition of being deliquescent