coalescence

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

From Middle French coalescence and its etymon Latin coalēscentia. Doublet of coalescency. By surface analysis, coalesce + -ence.

Absolute coalescence is absolute density. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe
It is one of the things that we learn too late, the impossibility of any such rapid and wilful coalescences of souls. — The Passionate Friends, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In the twenty-second century, however, the growth of the city storey above storey, and the coalescence of buildings, had led to a different arrangement. — Tales of Space and Time, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination

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