The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Suffusion \Suf*fu"sion\, n. [L. suffusio: cf. F. suffusion.]
   1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being
      suffused; an overspreading.
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            To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion
            of eyes, objects appear of that color. --Ray.
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   2. That with which a thing is suffused.
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   3. (Zool.) A blending of one color into another; the
      spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of
      birds.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

suffusion
    n 1: the process of permeating or infusing something with a
         substance [syn: permeation, pervasion, suffusion]