evanescent

Meaning

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

Opposite of

nonevanescent, eternal, lasting, perennial, persistent

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

Translations

evanescente

évanescent

evanescente

evanescente

vergänglich

fugaz

dahinschwindend

vergankelijk

fugace

schwindend

fugaz

vorübergehend

ephemerisch

ephemer

efímer

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’)).