"evanescence" meaning in English

See evanescence in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌɛv.əˈnɛs.əns/ [General-American, UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-evanescence.wav [Southern-England] Forms: evanescences [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin ēvānēscentia. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:bor|la-med:ēvānēscentia|text=+|tree=1}} [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Medieval Latin", "term" : "ēvānēscentia", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "la-med" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "evanescence", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="evanescence"> Borrowed from Medieval Latin ēvānēscentia. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} evanescence (countable and uncountable, plural evanescences)
  1. The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  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), evanescència [feminine] (Catalan), évanescence [feminine] (French), evanescenza [feminine] (Italian), исчезну́вање (isčeznúvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), мимолётность (mimoljótnostʹ) (Russian), evanescencia [feminine] (Spanish), зникання (znykannja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), щезання (ščezannja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), швидкоплинність (švydkoplynnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: evanesce, evanescent, ephemeral

Inflected forms

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