About The Word Evanescent
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Evanescent
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What's The Definition Of Evanescent?
[adj] tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Evanescent: impermanent | temporary Related Terms | Find terms related to Evanescent: atomic | brittle | capricious | changeable | corpuscular | corruptible | deciduous | disappearing | dissolving | dying | embryonic | ephemeral | evaporating | fading | fickle | fleeting | flitting | fly-by-night | flying | fragile | frail | fugacious | fugitive | germinal | granular | impalpable | imperceptible | impermanent | impetuous | imponderable | impulsive | inappreciable | inconstant | indiscernible | infinitesimal | insubstantial | intangible | invisible | melting | microcosmic | microscopic | molecular | momentary | mortal | mutable | nondurable | nonpermanent | passing | perishable | short-lived | subatomic | temporal | temporary | tenuous | thin | transient | transitive | transitory | ultramicroscopic | undurable | unenduring | unseeable | unstable | vanishing | volatile See Also | Evanescent In Webster's Dictionary \Ev`a*nes"cent\, a. [L. evanescens, -entis, p. pr. of
evanescere.]
1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing;
fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these
particulars. --Hawthorne.
2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.
The difference between right and wrong, is some
petty cases, is almost evanescent. --Wollaston.
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