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Evanescent vs Summary - What's the difference?

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Evanescent is a related term of summary.


As adjectives the difference between evanescent and summary

is that evanescent is evanescent while summary is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.

As a noun summary is

an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

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.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * evanescence ----

    summary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
    • A summary review is in the appendix.
  • Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
    • They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
  • (legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
    • Summary justice is bad justice.

    Noun

    (wikipedia summary) (summaries)
  • An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

    • Synonyms

    * upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)

    Derived terms

    * executive summary * management summary