adjective /ˌɛv.əˈnɛs.ənt/
a) Vanishing, disappearing.
The sea was each little birds great playmate. . . . In their airy flutterings, they seemed to rest on the evanescent spray.
. . . making the ideal of my foolish girlhood seem as unsubstantial and evanescent as a dream in the glowing noontide.
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