hyalescence

From hyaline +‎ -escence.

hyalescence (uncountable)

1. (rare) The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
   • 1991, Rebecca Goldstein, The Dark Sister, Penguin Books, published 1993, page 128:

     I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself.

• “hyalescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.