evanescent
Disappearing, vanishingDisappearing, vanishing.
» Maxim Moskalkov visited the city's annual ice festival and talked to the sculptors about their evanescent masterpieces.
Meaning
6 sensesDisappearing, vanishing.
Disappearing, vanishing.
Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.
verschwindend, schwindend, evaneszent
Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
Barely there; almost imperceptible.
verschwindend klein
Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
Of plant parts: shed after a period.
nicht dauerhaft
- tending to vanish like vapor
Examples
2 sentencesMaxim Moskalkov visited the city's annual ice festival and talked to the sculptors about their evanescent masterpieces.
Life is a dream, an ethereal butterfly. The butterfly, a fleeting and fluttering creature, is like life itself—delicate and evanescent.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from French évanescent (“evanescent”), from Latin ēvānēscēns (“disappearing, vaniBorrowed 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’)).
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Forms
more evanescent, most evanescent| Comparative | more evanescent Lesson |
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| Superlative | most evanescent Lesson |
regular
Antonyms
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