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Diffused

adjective

1.

(of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material.

2.

(of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected. Synonyms: diffuse, soft. Antonym: hard.

Diffuse

verb

(past & past part. diffused; pres. part. diffusing)

1.

Move outward. Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out.

2.

Spread or diffuse through. Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle. "Music penetrated the entire building" , "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"

3.

Cause to become widely known. Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread. "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"

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"Diffused" Quotes from Famous Books

... Locke, would be some artificial light which he should be able to throw-not upon the "focal object of vision," but upon the real object to be viewed-to wit: upon the moon. It has been easily calculated that, when the light proceeding from a star becomes so diffused as to be as weak as the natural light proceeding from the whole of the stars, in a clear and moonless night, then the star is no longer visible for ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... many interesting things: Would the greater degree of pleasure experienced in the others be a sufficient compensation? I should say that he would gain more than he would lose; that vivid interest and pleasure in a few things is preferable to that fainter, more diffused feeling experienced in the other case. Again, we have to take into account the value to us of the mental pictures gathered in our wanderings. For we know that only when a scene is viewed emotionally, when it produces in us a shock of pleasure, does it become a permanent possession of the mind; in ...

— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

... assured Halechalbe that he would be as dear to him as his own son. Magnificent feasts were afterwards given, that all possible splendour might accompany an union authorized and approved by the Caliph, and which diffused joy among all ...

— Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers • Various

... only two phases and points of view that concern the generally diffused conviction that Reason has ruled, and is still ruling in the world, and consequently in the world's history; because they give us, at the same time, an opportunity for more closely investigating the ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... never-to-come fashions—the clerks of London—hurried about with the horrid consciousness of exposing their costliest garments to the "pelting of the pitiless storm." Evening stole on. A London twilight has nothing of the pale grey comfort that is diffused by that gradual change from day to night which I have experienced when seated by the hearth or the open window of a rural home. There it seems like the very happiness of nature—a pause between the burning passions of meridian day and the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 27, 1841 • Various

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