1 spread over a wide area:
diffuse light * a diffuse community
2 not clear or easy to understand; using a lot of words:
a diffuse style of writing
diffusely adverb
diffuseness noun [U]
Part of speech: verb
1 (formal) to spread sth or become spread widely in all directions:
[VN] The problem is how to diffuse power without creating anarchy. * [V] Technologies diffuse rapidly.
2 [V, VN] (technical) if a gas or liquid diffuses or is diffused in a substance, it becomes slowly mixed with that substance
3 [VN] (formal) to make light shine less brightly by spreading it in many directions:
The moon was fuller than the night before, but the light was diffused by cloud.
diffusion noun [U]:
the diffusion of Marxist ideas * the rate of diffusion of a gas
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