"evanescence" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɛv.əˈnɛs.əns/ [General-American, UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-evanescence.wav 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 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 terms suffixed with -escence, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -escence: 27 73 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 26 74 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 21 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 21 79 Disambiguation of 'fading and vanishing from sight': 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: evanesce, ephemeral

Inflected forms

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