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Infusion vs Infusible - What's the difference?

infusion | infusible |

As a noun infusion

is a product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.

As an adjective infusible is

that cannot be fused; unmeltable or infusible can be capable of being infused.

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.

    • infusible

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That cannot be fused; unmeltable.

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being infused.
  • * Hammond
    • Doctrines being infusible into all.
  • From which an infusion may be made.