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Evanescent
adjective/ev-uh-NESS-unt/
Evanescent means quickly fading and lasting only for a very short time.
In contextHer evanescent smile flickered for a second and then was gone.
Remember it
Evanescent hides 'vanish' — something that vanishes almost as soon as it appears.
Use it well
Use evanescent for beautiful things that fade fast, often in descriptive or poetic writing.