"evanescence" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌɛv.əˈnɛs.əns/ [General-American, UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-evanescence.wav [Southern-England] Forms: evanescences [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēvānēscēns, present participle of ēvānēscō (“I vanish, I fade away, I lapse”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|ēvānēscēns}} Latin ēvānēscēns, {{m|la|ēvānēscō||I vanish, I fade away, I lapse}} ēvānēscō (“I vanish, I fade away, I lapse”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} evanescence (countable and uncountable, plural evanescences)
  1. The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-evanescence-en-noun-f8r4qGBc
  2. The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (fading and vanishing from sight): flyktighet [feminine, masculine] (Bokmål), kortvarighet [feminine, masculine] (Bokmål), исчезну́вање (isčeznúvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), зникання (znykannja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), щезання (ščezannja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), швидкоплинність (švydkoplynnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-evanescence-en-noun-tTW3fIy5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -escence Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 11 89 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -escence: 20 80 Disambiguation of 'fading and vanishing from sight': 13 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: evanesce, ephemeral

Inflected forms

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