hyalescence

Etymology

From hyaline + -escence.

hyalescence means The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

HYALESCENCE — [Noun] The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass. From hyaline (from Greek hyalos, meaning "glass") + the suffix -escence (denoting a process or state of becoming). Unlike transparency, a static and general condition, or lucency, which suggests a soft, diffused glow, hyalescence implies a transformative rigor toward crystalline, mineral purity. It is the slow clearing of a frozen pond into a flawless, depthless pane; the annealing of molten silica into a perfect lens; the dissolution of a comforting illusion to reveal a hard, unadorned truth. It is the chilling beauty of seeing everything, with nothing left to hide behind.

noun

The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.“I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself.”