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   evanescent

   /ˌɛvəˈnɛsnt/

   adjective

   • 1. soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing: literary "the evanescent Arctic summer" Similar vanishingfadingevaporatingmelting awaydisappearingdiminishingdwindlingshrinkingfugitiverare:fugaciousephemeralfleetingshort-livedshort-termpassingtransitorytransientfugitivemomentarytemporarybriefhere today and gone tomorrowrare:fugaciousOpposite unlimitedpermanent
   • 2. denoting a field or wave which extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance.

   Word Origin early 18th century (in the sense ‘almost imperceptible’): from Latin evanescent- ‘disappearing’, from the verb evanescere (see evanesce).

   Derivatives

   • 1. evanescence noun
   • 2. evanescently adverb

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