adj
Meaning 1
Disappearing, vanishing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonevanescent
Standard Lemma guide
evanescent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɛvəˈnɛs(ə)nt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /iːvə-/
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General-American: /ˌɛvəˈnɛsənt/
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adj
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: electrical-engineering, electromagnetism, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonevanescent
adj
Meaning 3
Disappearing, vanishing.
Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonevanescent
adj
Meaning 4
Barely there; almost imperceptible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonevanescent, earthly, ephemeral, brief, deciduous, evanescent, fleeting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, instant, momentary, passing, perishable, quick, seasonable, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, volatile, whilend, worldly
adj
Meaning 6
Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.
Of plant parts: shed after a period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonevanescent, earthly, ephemeral, brief, deciduous, evanescent, fleeting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, instant, momentary, passing, perishable, quick, seasonable, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, volatile, whilend, worldly
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
tending to vanish like vapor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- evanescent beauty
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed 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’)).
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: намаляващ (namaljavašt) — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Bulgarian: изчезващ (izčezvašt) — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Catalan: evanescent — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Chinese Mandarin: 消逝 (xiāoshì) — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Dutch: verdwijnend — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Dutch: verzwindend — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- French: évanescent — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- German: verschwindend — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- German: schwindend — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- German: evaneszent — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- German: vergänglich — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- German: dahinschwindend — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Italian: evanescente — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Italian: indistinto — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Māori: memeha — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Occitan: evanescent — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Occitan: fugidís — disappearing, vanishing — see also disappearing, vanishing
- Bulgarian: неуловим (neulovim) — barely there; almost imperceptible
- German: verschwindend klein — barely there; almost imperceptible
- Dutch: infinitesimaal — barely there; almost imperceptible
- German: nicht dauerhaft — (botany) shed after a period