fugacité
French, noun/fy.ɡa.si.te/
fugacité is spelled F-U-G-A-C-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fugacité is a French feminine noun meaning “transience, fugacity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Caractère fugace”.
What does fugacité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetransience, fugacity
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caractère fugace. 2. Mesure de la non-idéalité d'un gaz réel, ayant la dimension d'une pression. Sa valeur est égale à la pression d'un gaz parfait dont la température et l'enthalpie libre molaire sont identiques.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fugacité
- fugacités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fugacité?
- /fy.ɡa.si.te/
- \fy.ɡa.si.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fugacité in French?
fugacité appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).