Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vanishing away; gradual departure or disappearance; dissipation, as of vapor.
- noun The quality of being evanescent; liability to vanish and escape observation or possession: as, the evanescence of mist or dew; the evanescence of earthly hopes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
act orstate ofvanishing away;disappearance ; - noun The
event offading andgradually vanishing fromsight ;
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight
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Examples
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Yet for all the exuberance of such songs, Porter also writes poignantly about his great theme: the evanescence of human attachments and the dreams they embody.
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Short of death, there are few things that remind one of the evanescence of life as profoundly as the realization that when loved ones go they often take with them, and forever, information they would have had at their fingertips.
History, One Photo at a Time Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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His is a strain of conceptualist evanescence that is highly material in its rudiment - a matter of celluloid disintegrated into acrylic emulsion.
ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011
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Yet for all the exuberance of such songs, Porter also writes poignantly about his great theme: the evanescence of human attachments and the dreams they embody.
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She wore mint-colored scrubs and had just blown a blizzard of bubbles for a crowd of Jamaican children, whose hands were raised in an effort to seize the evanescence.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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His is a strain of conceptualist evanescence that is highly material in its rudiment - a matter of celluloid disintegrated into acrylic emulsion.
ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011
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Steps start off classical – pirouettes from fourth position – then acquire jazzy helicopter arms, or evaporate into a noodling evanescence.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Pointes of View Luke Jennings 2010
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PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE nononononononononononono evanescence would definetly be good on the soundtrack …
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Perhaps fear of evanescence will then start to pass away.
There's a big cloud hanging over your hard drive | Observer editorial 2011
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She wore mint-colored scrubs and had just blown a blizzard of bubbles for a crowd of Jamaican children, whose hands were raised in an effort to seize the evanescence.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
samoritan commented on the word evanescence
Emily Dickinson used this word to refer to the delicate shine of color in a hummingbird:
A route of evanescence
With a revolving wheel;
A resonance of emerald,
A rush of cochineal;
And every blossom on the bush
Adjusts its tumbled head, --
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy morning's ride.
May 17, 2007
uselessness commented on the word evanescence
Also, one kick-awesome band.
May 17, 2007
shevek commented on the word evanescence
The band ruined the word for me.
July 17, 2008