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Definition of Fugitiveness
1. n. The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
Definition of Fugitiveness
1. Noun. The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fugitiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fugitiveness
Literary usage of Fugitiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura (1906)
"In the tea-room fugitiveness is suggested in the thatched roof, frailty in the
slender pillars, lightness in the bamboo support, apparent carelessness in ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"This sense of the fugitiveness of all things earthly is impressed with a peculiar
vividness on all Scott's poetry. It is difficult to find anything in the ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Specimens of hie spiritual addresses are preserved in the five homilies (on the
fugitiveness of human life, on faith and fear of God, on love towards God, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"In observing the fugitiveness of some aniline dyes, it struck him that the very
sensitiveness to certain rays of the spectrum which rendered the dyes as ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"That strange fugitiveness of sympathy, which is so often painfully impressed on
hopeless sufferers, and perhaps still more painfully on those who witness ..."
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