Synonyms for evanescent

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ev-uh-nes-uh nt

Phonetic Transcription : ˌɛv əˈnɛs ənt

Définition of evanescent

Origin : 1717, from French évanescent, from Latin evanescentem (nominative evanescens), present participle of evanescere "disappear, vanish," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + vanescere "vanish" (see vanish).

adj transient

Example sentences :

Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

You seek sympathy, and all you get is the most evanescent sense of relief—if you get that much.
Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad

But a dewdrop is evanescent, and there was nothing evanescent about Freya.
Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad

What a pity that they are as evanescent as the bloom of these flowers and the fragrance they exhale!
Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz

That life, when it is real, is not evanescent; is not slight; does not vanish away.
Extract from : « Proserpina, Volume 1 » by John Ruskin

Perhaps this is because joy and its effects are so evanescent.
Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 » by Various

It is needless to say the effect of guano upon this land, was not evanescent.
Extract from : « Guano » by Solon Robinson

She was one the effect of whose looks and words is not evanescent.
Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 » by Various

The reason is because the existing status is temporary and the conditions in it are evanescent.
Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner

But what is more wonderful is, that these lightning flashes are as evanescent as lightning.
Extract from : « A History of English Literature » by George Saintsbury

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