evanescence

American  

[ev-uh-nes-uhns] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs əns /

noun

1. the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence.

   the evanescence of dreams.

2. the act or fact of vanishing quickly.

   The target audience is left only with the dominant message after the evanescence of the advertisement.

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Etymology

Origin of evanescence

evanesc(ent) ( def. ) + -ence ( def. )

Example Sentences

Another cause is the evanescence of serious history curricula in schools, and an ignorance of the honor in service.

From The Wall Street Journal

They are intricate and variegated, playing with scale, with transience and permanence, with memory and evanescence.

From New York Times

The book’s setting 30-odd years ago comes to dovetail with that age gap’s built-in sense of evanescence.

From Los Angeles Times

People strolled about, glancing up at the delicate ceiling above their heads and out to the far shore of the basin, where still more of the trees created a distant cloud of frail evanescence.

From Washington Post

Their brief and glorious friendship suggested that healing might be possible, even as Piccolo’s death at 26 warned of its evanescence.

From Washington Post