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Fleeing vs Evanescent - What's the difference?

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Fleeing is a related term of evanescent.


As a verb fleeing

is .

As a noun fleeing

is the act of one who flees.

As an adjective evanescent is

evanescent.

fleeing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who flees.
  • * 1865 , The Dublin Review (page 58)
  • Until the year 211, "Adamantius" taught, studied, prayed, and fasted amidst disturbance, martyrdoms, and fleeings from house to house

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    evanescent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Vanishing, disappearing.
  • * 1837 , , "Footprints on the Sea-Shore" in Twice-Told Tales :
  • The sea was each little bird's great playmate. . . . In their airy flutterings, they seemed to rest on the evanescent spray.
  • * 1911 , , Initials Only , ch. 19:
  • . . . making the ideal of my foolish girlhood seem as unsubstantial and evanescent as a dream in the glowing noontide.
  • Ephemeral, momentary, fleeting.
  • * 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 46:
  • In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent .
  • Barely there; almost imperceptible.
  • * 1888 , , "The Withered Arm":
  • 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.
  • * 1907 , , The Secret Agent , ch. 7:
  • 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.
  • * 1916 , , Twilight in Italy , ch. 1:
  • 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 ----