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An emanation or outflow, especially an unpleasant vapor, smell, or discharge.
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- foul effluvium
- effluvium from a drain
- industrial effluvia
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A foul effluvium rose from the drain.
The writer described the room’s stale effluvia.
The report traced the effluvium to the damaged outlet.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular effluvium; plural effluvia or effluviums. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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