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Evanescent definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EVANES'CENT, a. Vanishing; subject to vanishing; fleeting; passing away; liable to dissipation, like vapor, or to become imperceptible. The pleasures and joys of life are evanescent.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin evanescent-, evanescens, present participle of evanescere Date: 1717 tending to vanish like vapor Synonyms: see transient

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (of an impression or appearance etc.) quickly fading. Derivatives: evanescence n. evanescently adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Evanescent 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is evanescent gradually disappears from sight or memory. (FORMAL or LITERARY) ...the evanescent scents of summer herbs. = ephemeral ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Vanishing, fleeting, transitory, transient, passing, flitting, fugitive, flying, ephemeral, short-lived.

Moby Thesaurus

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