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Fugacious vs Hurried - What's the difference?

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Fugacious is a related term of hurried.


As adjectives the difference between fugacious and hurried

is that fugacious is fleeting, fading quickly, transient while hurried is  done in a hurry; rushed.

As a verb hurried is

(hurry).

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

    hurried

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  •  Done in a hurry; rushed.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (hurry)