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EVANESCENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evanescence mean?
• EVANESCENCE (noun)
The noun EVANESCENCE has 1 sense:
1. the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight
Familiarity information: EVANESCENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
the evanescence of the morning mist
Hypernyms ("evanescence" is a kind of...):
disappearance (the event of passing out of sight)
Derivation:
evanesce (disappear gradually)
evanescent (tending to vanish like vapor)
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