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Fugitive vs Momentaneous - What's the difference?

fugitive | momentaneous |

As adjectives the difference between fugitive and momentaneous

is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while momentaneous is momentary.

As a noun fugitive

is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.

fugitive

English

(wikipedia fugitive)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fleeing or running away
  • transient, fleeting or ephemeral
  • elusive or difficult to retain

    • momentaneous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) momentary
  • *{{quote-book, year=1827, author=John Claridge, title=The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Lightning is a great flame, very bright, extending every way to a great distance, suddenly darting upwards, there ending, so that it is only momentaneous . }}