Power Suffixes: -escence

When I don’t argue, he takes it as acquiescence. Every Day

My brother became a successful high-school football coach and a mentor to hundreds of young men, helping them through the difficult transition from adolescence to manhood. October Sky

After a period of convalescence, the horse returned to racing, only to be injured again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend

In most cases it is the freeing of carbon dioxid that constitutes effervescence, but the freeing of any gas from liquid is effervescence. Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)

The astonishing efflorescence of Iran’s young filmmakers in the 1990s is directly tied to this sense of acute economic disappointment, which produced movies with searing allegories that won numerous international awards. Wall Street Journal (Jul 31, 2015)

Here today, gone tomorrow, they are like rare birds, seldom glimpsed, who remind us of the evanescence of all things, most of all physical beauty and the casual grace of youth. New York Times (Feb 4, 2014)

He explains that the orange flame is colored by soot particles heated to incandescence. Scientific American (Dec 19, 2019)

In iridescence, an object reflects different colors at different angles, separating white light into its constituent colors. Science Magazine (Feb 27, 2019)

Because in terms of energy-efficiency, if alternative light sources are available, there is no need for an organism to produce its own luminescence. BBC (Jan 16, 2013)

To safeguard access to stored information in the face of decay or technological obsolescence, archivists regularly transfer data to new media. Nature (Nov 27, 2018)

But over the next eight years, as solar activity built to a peak and then regressed back toward quiescence, the sun emitted no high-energy gamma rays at all. Scientific American (Mar 28, 2018)

“As organisms – and people – age, changes build up in their cells that eventually trigger cellular senescence,” she said. The Guardian (Dec 21, 2019)