evanescent

Meaning

1. Disappearing, vanishing.
2. Disappearing, vanishing.
3. Disappearing, vanishing.
4. Barely there; almost imperceptible.
5. Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
6. Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.

Synonyms

transient

fleeting

ephemeral

fugacious

transitory

impermanent

passing

evanescing

infinitesimal

momentary

perishable

short-lived

temporal

temporary

transpiring

vanishing

volatile

vapourish

vaporific

vaporish

vapourific

volatilizable

volatilisable

airy

momentany

elusive

evaporable

evasive

fading away

frail

fugitive

imperceptible

Hyphenated as

eva‧nes‧cent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛvəˈnɛs(ə)nt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French évanescent (“evanescent”), from Latin ēvānēscēns (“disappearing, vanishing”), present participle of ēvānēscō (“to disappear, vanish; to die out, fade away; to lapse”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away, out’)) + vānēscō (“to vanish”) (from vānus (“empty, vacant, void”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to abandon, leave”)) + -ēscō (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to become’)).