erubescence

• erubescency

From Latin erubescentia . Compare French érubescence.

erubescence (usually uncountable, plural erubescences)

1. The act of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.
   • 1861, Brown, John, “Education Through the Senses”, in Spare Hours, page 306:

     I then ventured to ask the master to ask small and red Dougal what cutlery was; but from the sudden erubescence of his pallid, ill-fed cheek, and the alarming brightness of his eyes, I twigged at once that he didn't himself know what it meant.

• albescence (“becoming white”), nigrescence (“becoming black”), virescence (“becoming green”)

• erubescent