suffusion Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
    pervasion; permeation.

WordNet

Suf*fu"sion noun
Etymology
L. suffusio: cf. F. suffusion.
Definitions
  1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.
    To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. Ray.
  2. That with which a thing is suffused.
  3. (Zoöl.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

Webster 1913