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evanescence|ɛvəˈnɛsəns|
[f. evanescent a.: see -ence.]
1. The process or fact of vanishing away.
1751Johnson Rambler No. 156 ⁋2 The great principles of truth..fade at last in total evanescence. Ibid. No. 163 ⁋5 The sudden evanescence of his reward. 1789Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 149 The almost total evanescence of both of them [nitrous and dephlogisticated air], when they are very pure, and mixed in due proportions. 1833Brewster Nat. Magic ii. 29 The circumstances under which these evanescences would take place. 1849M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xxi. 201 Varying through all degrees of brightness down to total, or almost total evanescence. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. II. ix. 522 A great variety of causes had led to the gradual evanescence of dogmatic teaching.
2. The quality of being evanescent; tendency to vanish away.
18..Smith Addr. Mummy Poet. Wks. (1846) 15 Statue of flesh! Immortal of the dead! Imperishable type of evanescence. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 731 The shadowy and fleeting evanescence..of the regal office and functions. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Ser. ii. ii. (1876) 46 This evanescence and lubricity of all objects..lets them slip through our fingers.
3. concr. An evanescent thing. rare.
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 848 That most celestial Evanescence—a Lunar Rainbow. |