as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
the evanescence of a rainbow detracts not a whit from its beauty
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Recent Examples of evanescence
To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence.
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
The Stranger with its exploration of another facet of exile and belonging, this time set on a flood-prone German island that exists in a perpetual struggle between evanescence and permanence.
—Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025
Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
The Stranger with its exploration of another facet of exile and belonging, this time set on a flood-prone German island that exists in a perpetual struggle between evanescence and permanence.
—Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025
Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evanescence
Noun
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Luzzatto said the relative shortness of that term is scaring away capital.—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Café Lisbeth hosts exhibitions on themes of transience and how humans have grappled with life’s passages throughout history.—
Diana Hubbell,
Saveur,
16 Oct. 2025
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Much of Gilbert’s early work displays an awareness of both the profundity and the transience of romance, and of the many different universes that one life can open into or contain.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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He had been introduced to the practice by Love, a fellow writer and spiritual seeker, but didn’t pursue it in earnest until after Love’s death, when its concepts of nonattachment and impermanence provided solace.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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This sense of musical object impermanence is tied directly to the kind of preemptive doubt that Young expressed, and that Roan was effectively threatened with.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Also in Japan there is a strong connection and respect towards nature, people in Japan appreciate the ephemerality of it.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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The show reflects on the ephemerality of cultural memory.—
Douglas Markowitz,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
27 July 2022
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The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.—
Laura Groch,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2021
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“Evanescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evanescence. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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