Crossword clues for evanescent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evanescent \Ev`a*nes"cent\, a. [L. evanescens, -entis, p. pr. of evanescere.]
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Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys.
So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars.
--Hawthorne. -
Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.
The difference between right and wrong, in some petty cases, is almost evanescent.
--Wollaston.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1717, "on the point of becoming imperceptible," from French évanescent, from Latin evanescentem (nominative evanescens), present participle of evanescere "disappear, vanish, pass away," figuratively "be forgotten, be wasted," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + vanescere "vanish" (see vanish). Sense of "quickly vanishing, having no permanence" is by 1738.
Wiktionary
a. 1 vanishing, disappearing. 2 ephemeral, momentary, fleeting. 3 Barely there; almost imperceptible.
WordNet
adj. tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"
Wikipedia
Evanescent may refer to:
- Evanescent (dermatology), a class of skin lesions
- "Evanescent" (song), a song by Vamps
- Evanescent wave, a term applied to electromagnetic waves that decay exponentially
Evanescent skin lesions, like wheals, are those that last for less than 24 hours before resolving.
"Evanescent" is the third single by Vamps, released on May 13, 2009. It includes a cover of the 1973 song " Life on Mars?" by David Bowie. The bass on the title track is provided by K.A.Z's former hide with Spread Beaver bandmate Chirolyn. The limited edition came with a DVD including the music video for the title track and its making of. The single reached number 4 on the Oricon chart.
Usage examples of "evanescent".
He only knew he recognized in the detailed renderings something he had known in the old world as an apparatus of unsurpassed power, a device that had held an entire mountain range invulnerable from the same evanescent demons that were now seeking the Earthchild he guarded.
They were formless, evanescent, without corporeal bodies, and were able to take possession of a human host-or one any other race, as long as its victim was lesser in power than it was.
I began to glimpse evanescent shadow-faces and forms in the dim corners of the halls and chambers - faces and forms so hideous and loathsome that I dare not describe them.
And now and then the grotesque, evanescent faces and forms, and the mocking portrait-shapes, troop before me in bewildering confusion.
And through it there glances a pale evanescent sunlight, and through it there sounds the burden of a lowly tragedy.
Beyond the launch pit, the flat Kazakhstan steppe had erupted into its brief spring bloom, with evanescent flowers pushing through the hardy grass.
Time enough to let Alea remember when Evanescent needed another conference with her.
Brigante rightly belonged to Evanescent and her kind, and that they tolerated the Terran colonists for amusement.
No doubt she would forget this one, too, though she would act on the ideas Evanescent gave her, thinking them her own.
The pure soul passes up from this evanescent world, over the bridge Chinevad, to the world of Ormuzd, and joins the angels.
As the great Forerunner had ascended to a spiritual and immortal life in the heavens, so his followers should be inspired with such a realizing sense of heavenly things, with such Divine faith and fellowship, as would lift them above the world, with all its evanescent cares, and fix their hearts with God.
Strange and cruel superstition, that imagines God to act towards men only according to the evanescent temper and technical phrase with which they leave the world!
In nature the cause endures under all evanescent changes, and survives all phenomenal beginnings and endings: so in spirit the causal personality, if there be one, may outlast all the shifting currents of the outward phenomena in endless persistence.
A future life, then, really imposes no new duty upon the present, alters no fundamental ingredient in the present, takes away none of the charms and claims of the present, but merely sheds an additional radiance upon the shaded lights already shining here, infuses an additional motive into the stimulants already animating our purposes, distills an additional balm into the comforts which already assuage our sorrows amidst an evanescent scene.
The one thing which everywhere is variable and evanescent, is evil, or the imperfect adjustment of the creature with the works and designs of the Creator.