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
Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 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
Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 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
Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for evanescence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evanescence
Noun
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Fallen blossoms whisper on the damp earth, a fleeting poem of transience.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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While these two exhibits may feel distinct, for Suh, all of his work interrogates the boundaries between personal and public space, and the conditions that force transience or enable permanence.—
Megan Williams,
CNN Money,
1 May 2025
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These works, made entirely in nature and left to be reclaimed by it, speak to a deep reverence for impermanence and the fleeting beauty of the world around us.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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Her installation of long, wide sheets of light-sensitive film, draped from the ceiling and eventually bearing traces of sunlight and heat, was one of the highlights of last year’s Whitney Biennial, part of her ongoing investigations into impermanence, inheritance, memory, and time.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
29 Apr. 2025
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Mohammadi works with materials that disintegrate, for instance halva, soap, letting their ephemerality echo the fragility of memory.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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Jia’s sense of the ephemerality of the medium, and of the world that the medium reflects, has seldom been more stirringly profound.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
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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 6 Jun. 2025.
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