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Definition of Evanescent
1. Adjective. Tending to vanish like vapor. "Evanescent beauty"
Definition of Evanescent
1. a. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
Definition of Evanescent
1. Adjective. Vanishing, disappearing. ¹
2. Adjective. Ephemeral, momentary, fleeting. ¹
3. Adjective. Barely there; almost imperceptible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Evanescent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Evanescent
1. Of short duration. Origin: L. E, out, + vanesco, to vanish (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evanescent
Literary usage of Evanescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brief Outline of an Analysis of the Human Intellect: Intended to Rectify the by James Rush (1865)
"ARTICLE X. Relation of the Verbal Sign to the Durable and evanescent Qualities.
In the twentieth section, we stated some of the circumstances under which ..."
2. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"Few works are more evanescent than paintings. ... Sophocles and Shaks- peare can
be produced and reproduced forever. But how evanescent are ..."
3. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"Hard to distinguish between evanescent increments and infinitesimal differences.
... Ordinate found from the area by means of evanescent increments. 27. ..."
4. Lessing by James Sime (1877)
"Could anything be more evanescent than the attitude of Marsyas—after Myron—as he
... evanescent as is the incident in each of these works, not one of them ..."
5. Chapters on the Modern Geometry of the Point, Line, and Circle: Being the by Richard Townsend (1863)
"Geometrical magnitudes of every kind, when compared with others of the same kind,
present in their evanescent and infinite states some anomalous ..."
6. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"evanescent Good-Will Occasionally good-will, though tied to its business firmly
enough, is of comparatively little value because of its temporary or ..."
7. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"evanescent CONGENITAL PIGMENTATION IN THE SACRO-LUMBAR REGION BY H. NEWELL WARDLE
The subject of this paper is one which for some time has created ..."
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