fugacious

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//fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs//

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Definitions & Usage

adjective
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Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.

Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.

1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:

Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]

1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye, page 589:

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1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour:

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