What's the difference between effluvia and effluvial?
Effluvia
Definition:
(pl. ) of Effluvium
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus postfebrile and postpartum alopecias are telogen effluvia that involve shedding of club hairs, whereas drug-induced alopecia and alopecia areata involve shearing and loss of growing hairs.
(2) A novel indoor air quality investigation was associated with carbon dioxide and methane accumulation, presumably from effluvia from geologic sources.
(3) Photograph: Alamy 2: Key players in gross-out movies Farrelly brothers The duo added sympathetic characters to all the effluvia.
(4) While actorly logorrhea flows into the outstretched mics of the presenters – the usual effluvia of "gifts", "blessings", "journeys", "privileges" and "honours" – my fellow groundlings turned their attention to their McDonald's and Doritos instead.
(5) Stevan Monkley-Poole argues in this thought-provoking article that nursing cannot afford to sit passively on the fence while the world we inhabit is drained of its precious resources and systematically poisoned by the effluvia of 'civilised' society.
(6) I hope that when the academics have got their magical lie detection machine working properly, they will then extend its capabilities to warn users sternly against reading the face-meltingly banal pseudoinspirational effluvia of Paulo Coelho, the preeningly obsessive rantings of nu-atheists, and the passive aggressive narcissism of writers who only ever retweet praise for themselves.