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EVANESCENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evanescent mean?
• EVANESCENT (adjective)
The adjective EVANESCENT has 1 sense:
1. tending to vanish like vapor
Familiarity information: EVANESCENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to vanish like vapor
Context example:
evanescent beauty
Similar:
impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)
Derivation:
evanesce (disappear gradually)
evanescence (the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight)
Context examples
My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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