exfoliation

English

Etymology

From Latin exfoliare (to remove leaves).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

exfoliation (countable and uncountable, plural exfoliations)

1. The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
2. The loss of leaves from a plant.
4. (cosmetics) The removal of a layer of dead skin, as in cosmetic preparation.

Derived terms

• chemexfoliation
• microexfoliation
• overexfoliation
• pseudoexfoliation

Translations

the removal of a layer of skin, as in cosmetic preparation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 去角質 / 去角质 (qùjiǎozhì, qùjiǎozhí)

• French: exfoliation (fr) f, peeling (fr) m
• German: Peeling (de) n
• Polish: peeling (pl) m, abrazja (pl) f
• Russian: пи́линг (ru) m (píling), эксфолиа́ция (ru) f (eksfoliácija) (formal)

See also

• exfoliant
• foliate
• foliation

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

exfoliation f (plural exfoliations)

1. exfoliation

Further reading

• “exfoliation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.