Evanescent Definition

ĕvə-nĕsənt
adjective
Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
American Heritage
Tending to pass away or fade from sight like mist or smoke; ephemeral.
Webster's New World

Vanishing, disappearing.

Wiktionary

Ephemeral, momentary, fleeting.

Wiktionary

Barely there; almost imperceptible.

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Origin of Evanescent

  • From French évanescent, from Latin ēvānēscēns (“vanishing, disappearing”)

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Evanescent Sentence Examples

  • It is asked how any wisdom can be so evanescent.

  • The nervous impulse is, so to say, the sudden evanescent glow of an ember continuously black-hot.

  • On the division of the Carolingian realm the part of the province to the east of the river fell to the share of Germany, while that to the west remained with the evanescent kingdom of Lotharingia.

  • They seem to be of the humped variety, but with the hump evanescent.

  • The illumination at B due to P then becomes comparatively small, indeed for some forms of aperture evanescent.

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