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Infusion vs Diffusion - What's the difference?

infusion | diffusion |

As nouns the difference between infusion and diffusion

is that infusion is a product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities while diffusion is the act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.

infusion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
  • An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion .
  • The act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities.
  • The act of installing a quality into a person.
  • * 1602 : , act V scene 1
  • [...] but in the verity of extolment / I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion / of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of / him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would / trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
  • (obsolete) The act of dipping into a fluid.
  • diffusion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion
  • (physics) the scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium
  • (physics) the intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation
  • the spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities
  • (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
  • the movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.