How you say it: [ev-uh-nes-uhnt]
What it is: adjective
What it means: 1.) vanishing; fading away; fleeting. 2.) tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible. (Definition courtesy of Dictionary.com.)
[For further consideration: evanesce, evanescence. Look 'em up!]
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The evanescent vision still danced inside her memory.
In Ecclesiastes, Solomon notes how evanescent human life is.
In a world that embraces war, peace is evanescent.
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1.) Any trace of loneliness evanesces the moment that I receive a friend's message.
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3.) The sweetest dreams fade from one's mind with all the evanescence of a rainbow.
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