Fading vs Fugacious - What's the difference?
fading | fugacious |
As a verb fading is . 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
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Noun
( en noun)
The act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.
* 1854 , (Herman Melville), (Israel Potter)
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(obsolete) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- Fading is a fine jig.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
- delicate burthens of dildos and fadings
( Webster 1913)
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fugacious English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
* 1906 , O. Henry, "", in The Four Million :
- 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.
* 1916 , George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye , page 589 :
- Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious , and often accompanied by intense headache
* 2011 , Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography , Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ISBN 9780307272973, page xvii :
- 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.
Derived terms
* fugaciously
* fugaciousness
Related terms
* fugacity
* fugue
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