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==English==
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===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|en|la|fugācius}}, comparative of {{m|la|fugāciter||evasively, fleetingly}}, from {{m|la|fugāx||transitory, fleeting}}, from {{m|la|fugiō||I flee}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/|a=UK,US}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fugacious.wav|a=Southern England}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# [[fleeting|Fleeting]], [[fading]] quickly, [[transient]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1906|author=O. Henry|chapter=s:The Furnished Room|title=The Four Million
|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1916|author=George Edmund De Schweinitz|title=Diseases of the Eye|page=589|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=14AfAAAAYAAJ|passage=Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes '''fugacious''', and often accompanied by intense headache {{…}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Michael Feeney Callan|title=Robert Redford: The Biography|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mDBt0sQz5QwC&pg=PR17&dq=%22fugacious%22|page=xvii|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|isbn=9780307272973
|passage=It may be that Redford's '''fugacious''' nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|fugaciously}}
* {{l|en|fugaciousness}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|fugacity}}
* {{l|en|fugitive#Adjective}}
* {{l|en|fugue}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|Fleeting, fading quickly, transient}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|վաղանցիկ}}, {{t+|hy|կարճատեւ}}, {{t+|hy|անցողիկ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|мимолетен|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|bg|краткотраен|sc=Cyrl}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|易逃逸的|tr=yìtáoyì de}}, {{t|cmn|難捕捉的|tr=nánbǔzhuō de}}, {{t|cmn|無常的|tr=wúcháng de}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|vluchtig}}, {{t+|nl|vlietend}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|katoavainen}}
* German: {{t+|de|flüchtig}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|早く散る|tr=hayaku chiru|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|儚い|tr=hakanai|sc=Jpan}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|fugaz}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|trecător|m}}, {{t+|ro|efemer|m}}, {{t|ro|care zboară}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|мимолётный}}, {{t+|ru|скороте́чный|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|fugaz}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|flyktig}}, {{t+|sv|förgänglig}}
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