What is the difference between evanescent and ephemeral?
evanescent | ephemeral | Synonyms |
Vanishing, disappearing.
* 1837 , , "Footprints on the Sea-Shore" in Twice-Told Tales :
* 1911 , , Initials Only , ch. 19:
Ephemeral, momentary, fleeting.
* 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 46:
Barely there; almost imperceptible.
* 1888 , , "The Withered Arm":
* 1907 , , The Secret Agent , ch. 7:
* 1916 , , Twilight in Italy , ch. 1:
Lasting for a short period of time.
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* Sir J. Stephen
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(biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
(geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
* 1986 , W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Y?ichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9,
Ephemeral is a synonym of evanescent.
As adjectives the difference between evanescent and ephemeral
is that evanescent is vanishing, disappearing while ephemeral is lasting for a short period of time.As a noun ephemeral is
something which lasts for a short period of time.evanescent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The sea was each little bird's 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.
- In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent .
- Her face too was fresh in colour, but it was of a totally different quality—soft and evanescent , like the light under a heap of rose-petals.
- While he was speaking the hands on the face of the clock behind the great man's back—a heavy, glistening affair of massive scrolls in the same dark marble as the mantelpiece, and with a ghostly, evanescent tick—had moved through the space of seven minutes.
- And I was pale, and clear, and evanescent , like the light, and they were dark, and close, and constant, like the shadow.
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* evanescence ----ephemeral
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(wikipedia ephemeral)Synonyms
* (short-lived) ephemeronAdjective
(en adjective)- Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
- sentences not of ephemeral , but of eternal, efficacy
- It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral , because human, sorrows.
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- The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
