different between uncertain vs evanescent

English

Etymology

un- +? certain

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s??t?n/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?n

Adjective

uncertain (comparative more uncertain, superlative most uncertain)

1. Not certain; unsure.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     Man, without the protection of a superior Being, […] is […] uncertain of everything that he hopes for.

2. Not known for certain; questionable.

3. Not yet determined; undecided.
4. Variable and subject to change.
5. Fitful or unsteady.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

6. Unpredictable or capricious.

Antonyms

• certain

Related terms

• uncertainly, uncertainty

Translations

Noun

uncertain pl (plural only)

1. (with "the") Something uncertain.

Anagrams

• N Centauri, centaurin, encurtain, runcinate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French évanescent (“evanescent”), from Latin ?v?n?sc?ns (“disappearing, vanishing”), present participle of ?v?n?sc? (“to disappear, vanish; to die out, fade away; to lapse”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away, out’)) + v?n?sc? (“to vanish”) (from v?nus (“empty, vacant, void”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“to abandon, leave”)) + -?sc? (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to become’)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??n?s(?)nt/, /i?v?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v??n?s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?s?nt
• Hyphenation: eva?nes?cent

Adjective

evanescent (comparative more evanescent, superlative most evanescent)

1. Disappearing, vanishing.

   Synonym: nonevanescent

   1. (electromagnetism) Of an oscillating electric or magnetic field: not propagating as an electromagnetic wave but having its energy spatially concentrated in the vicinity of its source.
   2. (mathematics) Of a number or value: diminishing to the point of reaching zero as a limit; infinitesimal.
2. Barely there; almost imperceptible.
3. Ephemeral, fleeting, momentary.

   Synonyms: nonevanescent; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral

   1. (botany) Of plant parts: shed after a period.

Derived terms

• evanescence
• evanescently
• nonevanescent

Related terms

• evanesce

Translations

References

Further reading

• evanescent field on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• evanescent (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

?v?n?scent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ?v?n?sc?

Romanian

Etymology

From French évanescent

Adjective

evanescent m or n (feminine singular evanescent?, masculine plural evanescen?i, feminine and neuter plural evanescente)

1. evanescent

Declension