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/ˌɛvənˈɛsənt/ Listen

adjective

Evanescent adj.

Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. "So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars."

Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. "The difference between right and wrong, in some petty cases, is almost evanescent."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Evanescent" Quotes from Famous Books

... he was passing the Waldorf he remembered that he had several things to say to Mrs. Dan. The order was changed, and a few moments later he was received in Mrs. Dan's very special den. She wore something soft and graceful in lavender, something that was light and wavy and evanescent, and made you watch its changing shadows. Monty looked down at her with the feeling that she ...

— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon

... discouraging, indeed, for two young people like Mrs. Adams and myself, who have just begun to keep house, to inherit a famine, and such a robust famine, too. It is true that I should not have set my heart upon such a transitory and evanescent terrestrial object like a pumpkin pie so near to T. Tooterson, imported pie soloist, doughnut mastro and feminine virtuoso, but I did, and so I returned from ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

... they supposed, some mystic rite which should deliver them from the threatened punishment. Soon the terrible shadow passed away from the face of the moon; and the gratitude of the savages was as deep as their previous terror. But, being blended with much awe, it was not so evanescent as gratitude often is; and henceforward there was no failure in the regular supply ...

— The Life of Columbus • Arthur Helps

... this. But, of course, the whole trouble is entirely imaginary. Oh, I know that doesn't make it any better for the moment; but it's more evanescent." ...

— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson

... delicate in art - More delicate than Summer or than fall (Even as rugged man is more refined In vital things than woman). Winter's touch On Nature seemed most beautiful of all - That evanescent beauty of the frost On window panes; of clean, fresh, fallen snow; Of white, white sunlight on the ice-draped trees. Winter, though rude, is delicate ...

— Poems of Optimism • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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