vane-, vani- +

(Latin: become empty, disappear; to fade, to become empty)


evanescent
1. Vanishing, tending to vanish or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Fading away; fleeting.
3. Tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible.
evanish
1. To vanish; to disappear.
2. To cease to be.
3. To escape from sight or perception.

Vanish is more generally used than evanish.

vain
1. Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless; such as, a vain attempt.
2. Lacking substance or worth; for example, vain talk.
3. Excessively proud of one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.
4. Etymology: "devoid of real value, idle, unprofitable", from Old French vein, "worthless"; from Latin vanus, "idle, empty", Latin vacare, "to be empty"; vastus, "empty, waste". The meaning "conceited" was first recorded in 1692, from earlier sense of "silly, idle, foolish" (1390).
vainglorious, vaingloriousness, vaingloriously
1. Excessively proud or boastful of some achievement.
2. Characterized by or exhibiting excessive vanity; boastful.
3. Feeling self-importance.
vainglory
1. Outspoken conceit.
2. Excessive pride in or boastfulness about personal abilities or achievements.
3. Excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
2. Empty pomp or show.
vanish
1. To pass out of sight, especially quickly; to disappear.
2. To pass out of existence.
3. In mathematics, to become zero; used as a function or variable.
vanished
1. Having passed out of existence.
2. Not now present or existing.
vanishing
1. Beginning to disappear.
2. Suddenly disappearing from sight.
3. A sudden or mysterious disappearance.
4. Quickly going away and passing out of sight.
vanishment
Passing out of sight, especially quickly; disappearance.
vanity
1. Excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit: "The failure of being elected was a great blow to his vanity."
2. A lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness: "She persisted with the vanity of a selfish life."
3. Something worthless, trivial, or pointless.
4. A wide, counter-like shelf containing a wash basin, as in the bathroom of a hotel or residence, often equipped with shelves, drawers, etc., underneath.
5. A cabinet built below or around a bathroom sink, primarily to hide exposed pipes.
vaunt, vaunts, vaunting, vaunted
1. To speak boastfully of; to brag about.
2. Speech of extravagant self-praise.
3. Etymology: from Middle French vanter, "to praise, to speak highly of", from Late Latin vanitare, "to boast"; of Latin vanare, "to utter empty words"; from vanus, "idle, empty".
vaunter
A very boastful and talkative person.

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