adj.
- chiefly literary quickly fading from sight, memory, or existence.
- Physics denoting a field or wave which extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance.
Derivative
- evanesce v.
- evanescence n.
- evanescently adv.
Etymology
C18: from L. evanescent-, evanescere ‘disappear’.
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