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Evanescence   /ˌɛvənˈɛsəns/   Listen
Evanescence

noun
1.
The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight.





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"Evanescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... the appalling face of a glimpsed truth—the strange commingling of desire and hate. And it is not my own extremity I remember best—a vision of greyness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things—even of this pain itself. No! It is his extremity that I seem to have lived through. True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad


Words linked to "Evanescence" :   evanesce, disappearance, evanescent


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