evanescence

Borrowed from Latin ēvānēscēns, present participle of ēvānēscō (“I vanish, I fade away, I lapse”).

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛv.əˈnɛs.əns/

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evanescence (countable and uncountable, plural evanescences)

1. The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance.
   • 1 September, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler

     We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful;

2. The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight.

   the evanescence of the morning mist.

• evanesce

• ephemeral