evanescent
ɛvəˈnɛs(ə)nt,iːvəˈnɛs(ə)nt/
adjective: evanescent
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literarysoon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.“the evanescent Arctic summer”
synonyms: vanishing, fading, evaporating, melting away, disappearing, diminishing, dwindling, shrinking, fugitive; rarefugacious“they were operating on an evanescent budget”ephemeral, fleeting, short-lived, short-term, passing, transitory, transient, fugitive,momentary, temporary, brief, here today and gone tomorrow;rarefugacious“this has only an evanescent effect on the rate of inflation”2.PHYSICSdenoting a field or wave which extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance.
Origin
early 18th century (in the sense ‘almost imperceptible’): from Latin evanescent- ‘disappearing’, from the verb evanescere (see evanesce).
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