evanescence
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Definition of evanescence
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Synonyms & Antonyms for evanescence
Synonyms
ephemerality, fleetingness, fugitiveness, impermanence, impermanency, momentariness, temporariness, transience, transiency, transitoriness
Antonyms
endurance, permanence, permanency
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Examples of evanescence in a Sentence
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But rock is our closest approximation to the unchanging forever, placing our human evanescence in perspective. — courant.com, "In Our Midst: St. Joseph’s Grads Create A Rock Of Ages," 9 July 2019 Both groups are striving to locate something fundamental and immutable about Britain in an era of erosion and evanescence. — The Economist, "Brexit is reverberating in British literature," 5 July 2018 Nothing symbolizes border evanescence like the symbiosis of San Diego and Tijuana, where a bridge over the divide takes Upper Californians to the airport in Baja California. — Felipe Fernández-armesto, WSJ, "‘Vanishing Frontiers’ Review: The Ties That Bind," 25 June 2018 Ultimately tinged with the melancholy of passing time— evanescence is written into the nature of pop music— Leto is bursting with great music and an intelligent awareness of how the same songs have very different meanings in different cultures. — John Powers, Vogue, "At Cannes, Women Claim the Headlines," 14 May 2018 Information’s most consistent quality is its evanescence. — Maria Bustillos, Longreads, "The Internet Isn’t Forever," 20 Feb. 2018 Her songs—entwined with one another without being constrained—evoke evanescence, but also endurance, and tell a universal story in vividly particular terms that could only be her own. — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, "The Unknowable Joni Mitchell," 4 Oct. 2017 But on the other hand, Trump’s own brilliant bill is languishing on the pyre, and the president is standing next to it intoning bromides about the inescapable evanescence of life. — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, "Not the President’s Fault, but Exactly What He Wanted," 24 Mar. 2017 Cooked like a risotto and capped by San Diego uni, the satsuki rice nears evanescence with yuzu-pecorino cream. — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, "The Los Angeles Magazine Hot Restaurant List for July 2017," 18 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'evanescence.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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