Diffuse vs Interfuse - What's the difference?
diffuse | interfuse |
To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
* Whewell
To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.
To fuse or blend together
*{{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861, chapter=, edition=
, passage=They seem to be so interfused with the emotions of the soul, that they strike upon the heart almost like the living touch of a spirit. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=William James, title=A Pluralistic Universe, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused , the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1914, author=May Sinclair, title=The Three Sisters, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings. }}
As verbs the difference between diffuse and interfuse
is that diffuse is while interfuse is to fuse or blend together.diffuse
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) diffusus, past participle ofVerb
(diffus)- We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations.
- Food coloring diffuses in water.
- The riot diffused quite suddenly.
Derived terms
* diffuserEtymology 2
(etyl) diffususAdjective
(en adjective)- Such a diffuse effort is unlikely to produce good results.
Derived terms
* diffuselyinterfuse
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Verb
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