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Fugacious vs Vehemently - What's the difference?

fugacious | vehemently |

As an adjective fugacious

is fleeting, fading quickly, transient.

As an adverb vehemently is

in a vehement manner; expressing with a strong or forceful attitude.

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

    vehemently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a vehement manner; expressing with a strong or forceful attitude.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And it was a miserable afternoon for Chelsea and England captain John Terry at the end of a week in which has he faced allegations of racial abuse against QPR's Anton Ferdinand - claims he vehemently denies.}}