{"id":1305,"date":"2022-06-13T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2022-06-13T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:41:04","slug":"word-of-the-week-evanescent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridalbasics.ca\/1\/wp\/2022\/06\/13\/word-of-the-week-evanescent\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week: Evanescent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Evanescent is an adjective\u00a0 and is pronounced\u00a0 ev-uh-NESS-unt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does evanescent mean?<\/strong>
It means something that vanishes quickly like a vapor, soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence;\u00a0 quickly fading or disappearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like “a shimmering evanescent bubble”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Origins<\/strong>
Evanescent comes from the Latin evanescere meaning\u00a0 to disappear,\u00a0 evaporate, or vanish. It\u2019s a fragile, airy quality. \u00a0 Something that possesses qualities of evanescence, have qualities of disappearing or vanishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synonyms for Evanescent<\/strong>
brief, deciduous, ephemeral, flash, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you choose the right synonym for evanescent?<\/strong>
Transient, Transitory, Ephemeral, Momentary, Fugitive, Fleeting, and Evanescent itself mean lasting or staying only a short time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transient applies to what is actually short in its duration or stay.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transitory applies to what is by its nature or essence bound to change, pass, or come to an end.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ephemeral implies striking brevity of life or duration.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Fugitive and Fleeting imply passing so quickly as to make apprehending difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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