fugacious: \fyoo-GAY-shus\ adjective

: lasting a short time,temporary.

Examples:

The rock band's rise in popularity turned out to be

fugacious, and within two years its members had moved on to other careers.

"It is of no surprise that their debt problem is not fugacious,

it is insurmountable. It is an impossible task for Greece to pay its

debt." - From a letter to the editor by Alfonso Tiu Henderson in the

Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 12, 2012

"Fugacious" is often used to describe immaterial things like emotions,

but not always. Botanists, for example, use it to describe plant parts

that wither or fall off before the usual time. Things that are fugacious

are fleeting, and etymologically they can also be said to be fleeing. "

Fugacious" derives from the Latin verb "fugere," which means "to flee."

Other descendants of "fugere" include "fugitive," "refuge," and "subterfuge.

transient, evanescent, fleeting, temporary, fugacious, ephemeron.

Ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, impermanent, temporal, temporary, transient, or transitory.

Synonyms for the word ephemeral can include:

brief,

episodic

evanescent,

Fleeting

flitting,

fugacious

fugitive

impermanent,

momentary

passing,

short-lived.

temporary,

Transient

transitory,

volatile brief, temporary, short, episodic

Brief, deciduous, fleeting, evanescent, flash, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory.