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- unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person
- pouring out; overflowing
- showing (too much) feeling; too emotional [Barron]
- characterized or formed by a nonexplosive outpouring of lava [Taisha]
- pouring forth; gushing [Nandigam]
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