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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2005-12-23 07:28 am

diaphanous

diaphanous - adj., of such fine texture as to be translucent or transparent; having delicacy of form; insubstantial, vague.


From Greek, dia-, though + phainein, to show -- the latter being related to phantom, something sensed but having no physical reality.

---L.

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