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evanescence

[ ev-uh-nes-uhns ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence:
the evanescence of dreams.
the act or fact of vanishing quickly:
The target audience is left only with the dominant message after the evanescence of the advertisement.

Our motto was “Evanescence has two hit songs, and we do both of them.”

Ardours of passion could be felt as in youth without the recuperative intervals which had accompanied evanescence.

Colours, shadows and atmospheric effects are naturally associated with ideas of transition, mystery and evanescence.

She was immediately angry at having betrayed even to herself the possible evanescence of her passion for him.

The baffling evanescence of dreams caught sight of on awakening is familiar to every one.

It recalled, too, the thought of man's evanescence and the apparent fixedness of his institutions.

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