fugacious
/fjʊˈɡeɪʃəs
/adjective literary
Tending to disappear; fleeting: she was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth...
- They are very fugacious, and now and then apparently absent.
- Its flowers, however, are very fugacious, so much so that it is difficult to obtain good specimens, the mere gathering causing them to fall; hermaphrodite flowers, though carefully sought, were not seen.
Derivatives
fugaciously
- As the fugaciously dour temperament slips his mind, he asks if he'll find what he's been searching for all this time.
- Ah, I weep for you, placid hours that disappeared from the scene of my life more rapidly and fugaciously than the lightning that shines on the dark road of the traveler.
- Tropic of Cancer is nothing short of a true reflection of life, caught fugaciously through the written word; and this is a monumental and heroic accomplishment.
fugaciousness
- If you are hunting, forget all about accounts collectable, bills unpayable, your wife's parting remarks, the fugaciousness of time, and the seductiveness of the next field.
- The title ‘still living’ is an obvious allusion to the art historical genre of the still life - depictions of Vanitas alluding to the passing of time in general and to the fugaciousness and transience of all human life.
- ‘Eclipses’ is the title given to a cycle of paintings (oil painting on beeswax) and drawings (gouaches, graphite on Japanese paper) that explores the butterfly phenomenon as an image of fugaciousness.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin fugax, fugac- (from fugere 'flee') + -ious.
Rhymes
- neu
- Neuchâtel, Lake
- Neue Sachlichkeit
- Neufchâtel
- neum
- Neumann function
- Neumann, John von
- Neumann problem
- Neumann's formula
- Neumann's function
- Neumann's law
- Neumann's problem
- neumatic
- neume
- neumic
- Neupogen
- neur.
- neural
- neural arch
- neural canal
- neural cell adhesion molecule
- neural computer
- neural computing
- neural crest
- neuralgia