Definitions for evanescent

evanescent ev·a·nes·cent

Spelling: [ev-uh-nes-uh nt]
IPA: /ˌɛv əˈnɛs ənt/

Evanescent is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 315 anagrams from letters in evanescent (aceeennstv).

Definitions for evanescent

adjective

  1. vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
  2. tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible.

Origin of evanescent

1745-55; Latin ēvānēscent- (stem of ēvānēscēns) vanishing, disappearing. See evanesce, -ent

Examples for evanescent

That life, when it is real, is not evanescent; is not slight; does not vanish away.

When he does, for short walks on moonless nights or for the occasional meal, these evanescent periods of freedom are thrilling.

And always in the background, evanescent but, in the end, accountable, is Rupert Murdoch—courted, feared and sometimes loathed.

But success in a mission of this size may only bring limited and evanescent political benefits.

What a pity that they are as evanescent as the bloom of these flowers and the fragrance they exhale!

They are imagined as disembodied spirits, and are often visualized as vague or evanescent forms; hence, the white sheet routine.

But that support was evanescent; it's already back below 50%, and probably still falling.

You seek sympathy, and all you get is the most evanescent sense of relief—if you get that much.

But a dewdrop is evanescent, and there was nothing evanescent about Freya.

Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.

Word Value for evanescent
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