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Fugacious

//fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lasting a very short time wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fugācius, comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“I flee”).

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