fugacious

adjective /fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/

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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry fugacious (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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