emollescence

English

Etymology

From Latin e (“out”) + mollescere, inchoate from mollere (“to be soft”), mollis (“soft”).

Noun

emollescence (uncountable)

1. That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “emollescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)