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Foamy vs Spumescence - What's the difference?

foamy | spumescence |

As an adjective foamy

is full of foam.

As a noun spumescence is

(obsolete) the state or characteristic of being foamy or frothy.

foamy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Full of foam.
    • He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • * 1715–1720':Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the '''foamy seas — Alexander Pope, ''The Iliad
  • * 1831': For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In '''foamy agitation — William Wordsworth, ''Yarrow Revisited .

    • Synonyms

    * frothy, spumescent

    spumescence

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The state or characteristic of being foamy or frothy.

    • Derived terms

    * spumescent (Webster 1913)