evanescent
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Evanescent \Ev`a*nes"cent\, a. [L. evanescens, -entis, p. pr. of
evanescere.]
1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing;
fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
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So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these
particulars. --Hawthorne.
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2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.
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The difference between right and wrong, in some
petty cases, is almost evanescent. --Wollaston.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "evanescent":
atomic, brittle, capricious, changeable, corpuscular, corruptible,
deciduous, disappearing, dissolving, dying, embryonic, ephemeral,
evaporating, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night,
flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, germinal, granular,
impalpable, imperceptible, impermanent, impetuous, imponderable,
impulsive, inappreciable, inconstant, indiscernible, infinitesimal,
insubstantial, intangible, invisible, melting, microcosmic,
microscopic, molecular, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable,
nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short-lived, subatomic,
temporal, temporary, tenuous, thin, transient, transitive,
transitory, ultramicroscopic, undurable, unenduring, unseeable,
unstable, vanishing, volatile
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