different between unearthly vs evanescent

English

Etymology

From un- +? earthly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n????.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n???.li/

Adjective

unearthly (comparative unearthlier, superlative unearthliest)

1. Not of the earth; non-terrestrial.
   • 2012, Charles Lockwood, Tragedy at Honda, page 65

     In the hard glare of the Searchlight, which had been manned by Seaman 2nd class Evans W. Watkins, the rock had the unearthly look of a miniature satellite in space.

2. Preternatural or supernatural.
3. Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious.
   • 1819 [publ. Sep 1858], James Morton, "The Poetical Remains of the late Dr. John Leyden, with Memoirs of his Life", The Calcutta Review, volume 31, page 25

     I then set out to survey the town in the self-same palankeen. The houses had all of them an unearthly appearance, by no means consonant to our ideas of Oriental splendor.

4. Ideal beyond the mundane.
   • 2000, Aileen Ribeiro, The Gallery of Fashion, page 42

     By the late sixteenth century Elizabeth had become the icon-like Virgin Queen of legend, an image created, to a large extent, by her extraordinary, unearthly costume and appearance.

5. Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.
   • 1927, The Walther League Messenger, volume 36, page 225

     I see my boys all wearing the same unearthly trousers, the same hair cuts, garish ties and sweaters, all rolling their socks and entertaining the same crazy notions about everything.

Translations

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