Definition

Noun: - The state or quality of being pulverulent: "pulverulence" refers to the condition of being composed of fine dust or powder; the property of being reduced to a powdery or dusty form.

Usage Examples

• (The state of being powdery and fragile.)
• (The fine, dusty quality of the ash.)
• (The powdery nature of the soil.)

Advanced Usage

• "in a state of pulverulence": describing something that is extremely dry and reduced to dust.
  • After centuries of decay, the old book's pages were in a state of pulverulence. (The pages had become powdery and brittle.)

Variants and Related Words

• Pulverulent (adj): consisting of or resembling fine dust; powdery.

  • The pulverulent residue on the shelf was left by the disintegrated plaster. (The powdery residue.)

• Pulverize (verb): to reduce to fine particles or dust.

  • The machine can pulverize rocks into sand. (To crush into powder.)

Synonyms

• Powderiness: the quality of being like powder.
• Dustiness: the state of being full of or covered with dust.
• Friability: the tendency of a solid substance to break into small pieces or powder.

Related Idioms

• To be reduced to pulverulence: to become completely broken down into dust or powder.
  • The ancient stone carving, exposed to wind and rain for millennia, was reduced to pulverulence. (It had eroded into fine dust.)