evanescent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EVANES'CENT, adjective Vanishing; subject to vanishing; fleeting; passing away; liable to dissipation, like vapor, or to become imperceptible. The pleasures and joys of life are evanescent
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