Origin:
ME < ML effluentia < L effluens, prp. of effluere, to flow out < ex-, out + fluere, to flow: see fluent
See effluence in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
The act or an instance of flowing out.
Something that flows out or forth; an emanation: “tremendous emotional effluences that affected blocks of people at a time, causing them to walk faster”(Coleman Dowell).