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A chronic illness or pain is serious and lasts for a long time; a chronic problem is always happening or returning and is very difficult to solve.
Dissolution is the breaking up or official end of a group, such as a couple or institution; it can also be the act of separating something into smaller components.
Something that is diurnal happens on a daily basis.
Something ephemeral, such as some insects or a sunset, lasts for only a short time or has a very short lifespan.
A fleeting moment lasts but a short time before it fades away.
Something that is immutable is always the same and cannot be changed.
Someone who is impetuous does things quickly and rashly without thinking carefully first.
Longevity is the life span of a person or object; it can also refer to a particularly long life.
An organization or system that is a monolith is extremely large; additionally, it is unwilling or very slow to change or adopt something new.
Something that is perennial lasts a very long time and is enduring.
When you perpetuate something, you keep it going or continue it indefinitely.
A provisional measure is temporary or conditional until more permanent action is taken.
Something that is quotidian is done on a daily basis.
Stasis is a state of little change over a long period of time, or a condition of inactivity caused by an equal balance of opposing forces.
If you are steadfast, you have a firm belief in your actions or opinions and refuse to give up or change them because you are certain that you are doing the right thing.
Something that is temporal deals with the present and somewhat brief time of this world.
Something tenuous is thin, weak, and unconvincing.
Something that has the quality of transience lasts for only a short time or is constantly changing.
Something that is vaporous is not completely formed but foggy and misty; in the same vein, a vaporous idea is insubstantial and vague.
Something that is volatile can change easily and vary widely.
Adj.
evanescent
ev-uh-NES-uhnt
Context
The brilliant, quickly disappearing sight of the fiery comet swiftly speeding across the night sky was fleeting and evanescent. One moment Aaron pointed the comet out to his brother, and the next moment the evanescent, short-lived wonder was gone. The brothers didn’t want to miss a moment of this heavenly beauty, so they watched eagerly until the evanescent flash vanished, leaving the sky dark once again.
Quiz:Try again!
When actor Harrison Ford said, “The actor’s popularity is evanescent,” what did he likely mean?
Vanishing Scent When the wind comes along, the evanescentscent of the lilies fills my nostrils with a glorious but quickly vanishing scent as the wind soon dies down.
Examples
In some yards, mushrooms appear again and again in the same spot, often in a ring, and then fade away. Once, people thought these evanescent rings were magic and called them “fairy rings,” imagining them as enchanted places where forest spirits gathered to dance.
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Chicago Tribune
[Theater] is such an evanescent thing. Each performance is a one-off thing; each show ends its run. . . . You try to remember it, but the details fade—or they take on the amber glow we wrap the very best memories in, which is a different kind of misremembering.
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NPR
The [Wall Street] Journal was fat, happy and nicely profitable in the latter days of the 1990s stock-market bubble, as evanescent companies flush with money raised in the stock market bought ads right and left. . . . When the bubble vaporized, so did the ads.
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The Washington Post
The administration has been scrambling ever since to reassure the world that it didn’t really throw away the whole hard-won historical framework of the Middle East peace process in exchange for such evanescent assurances.
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Newsweek