1. vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
2. tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible.
"Over an intimate dinner for three, four, or five (anticipating rejection, he usually invited several of his heartthrobs at once and thus wound up with a voracious harem on the tab), he would crush the crystal in his firm though terrified grip, fracture his anecdotes into evanescent glints, swallow his bow tie, and come back from the powder room to a fur coat in the cloakroom - and here his valor always returned when it came to defending the torpid wrap against its usual occupant attempting to reclaim it....
"We barely glimpsed the flashing teeth and rush of darkness that announced the creature's evanescence."
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
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