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synonyms for evanescent

  • brief
  • disappearing
  • fading
  • fleeting
  • momentary
  • passing
  • short-lived
  • temporary
  • tenuous
  • vanishing
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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to evanescent, such as: brief, disappearing, fading, fleeting, momentary, and passing.

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How to use evanescent in a sentence

Often taken outside in waterfront locations, the photos capture evanescent moments and things — surf, shadows and twilight — and everyday places and people.
IN THE GALLERIES: EXPLORING HOW BODY LANGUAGE IS A VISUAL FORM OF COMMUNICATIONMARK JENKINSJUNE 11, 2021WASHINGTON POST
There are those who think that this excitement among the people will prove transitory and evanescent.
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTER
What a pity that they are as evanescent as the bloom of these flowers and the fragrance they exhale!
ERNEST LINWOODCAROLINE LEE HENTZ
Its nature is like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SOURCESJAMES WOOD
Splits and rents broke into the margin, and from each streamed the evanescent, azure vapour.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSON
A "brilliant display," we would say, and the observer would be kept busy following the track of the evanescent rays.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSON
Whims were evanescent, and this particular whim would pass away.
SEVENOAKSJ. G. HOLLAND
Its vitality resides in the light, airy, evanescent structure of the rhythm.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUS
Spirituality does not light it; evanescent dreams are its oil-lamps, often with wick askant in the socket.
THE ENGLISH STAGEAUGUSTIN FILON
How deplorably and unaccountably evanescent are our frames of mind, as various as the forms and hues of the summer clouds!
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. I (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOT
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