Word of the day

Evanescent – soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing; fleeting; tending to vanish like vapor; on the point of vanishing; burning up; fading out of sight; melting into thin air; denoting a field or wave which extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance.

Word of the day: "evanescent" – on the point of vanishing, burning up, fading out of sight, melting into thin air.
From the Latin vānescĕre, to vanish, and vānus meaning empty, void, insubstantial, which word also gives us "vain" (i.e. empty, futile). pic.twitter.com/teRI92xDEd

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) June 4, 2018

Word of the day

Evanescent– soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing, fleeting; vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor; denoting a field or wave that extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance.