Literary notes about evanesce (AI summary)
In literature, "evanesce" is often deployed to convey a sense of gradual disappearance or fading, imbuing language with an ephemeral quality that heightens the poignancy of both physical and emotional decline [1][2]. Writers may use it to suggest that something once vibrant is subtly dissolving away, whether it’s the allure of youth or the intensity of passion, as illustrated when an ignoble love is portrayed as destined to dissipate before beauty fully fades [3]. It also appears amid descriptions of natural decay and decline, reinforcing the inevitable process of vanishing over time [4].
- V. vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor &c. 336; diffuse.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - disappear , v. vanish , evanesce, recede, be lost to view .
— from Putnam's Word Book
A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming - It was an ignoble love, tigerish and animal, which would evanesce long before her youth and beauty had faded away.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar - fade , v. decay , decline , droop , languish, evanesce, disappear .
— from Putnam's Word Book
A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming