evanescence

[ ev-uh-nes-uhns ]
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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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How to use evanescence in a sentence

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