different between fugacious vs temporary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fug?cius, comparative of fug?citer (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fug?x (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugi? (“I flee”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /fju???e?.??s/

Adjective

fugacious (comparative more fugacious, superlative most fugacious)

1. Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
   • 1906, O. Henry, "The Furnished Room", in The Four Million:

     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.

   • 2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ?ISBN, page xvii:

     It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.

Derived terms

• fugaciously
• fugaciousness

Related terms

• fugacity
• fugue
• fugitive

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• tempory (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporarius, from tempus (“time”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?mp????i/, /?t?mp??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?mp?????i/
• Hyphenation: tem?po?rary

Adjective

temporary (comparative more temporary, superlative most temporary)

1. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
2. Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ephemeral

Translations

Noun

temporary (plural temporaries)

1. One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.

Synonyms

• temp

Translations