Wandering vs Fugacious - What's the difference?
wandering | fugacious | Related terms |
Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
(medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
Irregular turning of the eyes.
Aimless thought.
Straying from a desired path.
(chiefly, in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
* 1906 , O. Henry, "", in The Four Million :
* 1916 , George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye ,
* 2011 , Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography , Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ISBN 9780307272973,
Wandering is a related term of fugacious.
As adjectives the difference between wandering and fugacious
is that wandering is which wanders; travelling from place to place while fugacious is fleeting, fading quickly, transient.As a noun wandering
is travelling with no preset route; roaming.As a verb wandering
is .wandering
English
Adjective
(-)- a wandering''' kidney; a '''wandering liver
Derived terms
(terms derived from wandering) * wandering abscess * wandering albatross * wandering cell * wandering dune * wandering Jew * wandering kidney * wandering liver * wandering mouse * wandering pacemaker * wandering sequence * wandering set * wandering spider * wandering tattlerNoun
(en noun)Verb
(head)fugacious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
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- Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious , and often accompanied by intense headache
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- 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.