Fading vs Fugacious - What's the difference?
fading | fugacious |
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-19, volume=409, issue=8858, magazine=(The Economist), author=Banyan
, title= The act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.
* 1854 , (Herman Melville), (Israel Potter)
(obsolete) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
* 1906 , O. Henry, "", in The Four Million :
* 1916 , George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye ,
* 2011 , Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography , Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ISBN 9780307272973,
As a verb fading
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun fading
is the act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.As an adjective fugacious is
fleeting, fading quickly, transient.fading
English
Verb
(head)The meaning of Sachin, passage=With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.}}
Noun
(en noun)- Fading is a fine jig.
- delicate burthens of dildos and fadings
fugacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
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- Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious , and often accompanied by intense headache
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- It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.