Efflorescence
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form by losing loosely bound water of crystallization to the atmosphere. The production of flowers. (construction) An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick, plaster, or mortar; usually caused by free alkalies leached from mortar or adjacent concrete as moisture moves through it. (metaphorical) Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc. A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.
Bloom
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause to blossom; to make flourish.To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.Of a person, business, etc, to flourish.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.Flowers, collectively.The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. (Knight.)A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
Example sentence: To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.