fleetingness
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈflitɪŋnəs/
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efimeridad
- Granted: recognition of its fleetingness is helpful for remembering that our ultimate hopes aren't set on this world, and for remembering that the institutions, political machines, etc. that we build in this world won't last.
Examples
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It carried like a dream throughout the train station, sensuous and beautiful like the fleetingness of the stars, and at the same time it was hard like the earth, the changing of the seasons of the year, the nights and days.
Fiction book (2000) -
I posted something today on the fleetingness of life, based on some stuff written around the death of Nora Ephron and some comments made by Ricky Gervais.
Blog text (23) -
I do think he was overemphasizing the fleetingness of this world.
Blog text (24) -
Is he overemphasizing the fleetingness of this world?
Blog text (24) -
I also worry that you're overemphasizing the fleetingness of this world or life.
Blog text (24) -
This text is tense, at once resisting and embracing the fleetingness of pop culture and the meme.
Blog text (11) -
This perspective also allows us to see three major schools of Chinese thought as deeply related to each other: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism all share a primary perception of the fleetingness of human phenomena.
Academic text (2000) -
The fleetingness of childhood often makes us appreciate those early years even more.
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She often reflects on the fleetingness of time when looking back at old photographs.
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The artist captured the fleetingness of a sunset beautifully in her painting.
Synonyms
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8.2
A state of not lasting forever and likely to change
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8.1
A short time before something changes or ends
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9.6
A brief fading from sight or memory
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8.9
A state of lasting only a short time, like a rainbow
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3.5
A situation that lasts only for a short time
The state of lasting only a short time
A short time that something exists before it ends
A short life or existence of things like flowers
A short life for plant parts like petals that fall quickly
A state of lasting only a short time and hard to hold
A state of lasting only a short time
A temporary condition that does not last forever
Antonyms
How Brief
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fleetingness comes from fleet (an old word like 'float', meaning 'to move quickly or pass by') plus the ending -ness ('quality of'). Think of a small scene or boat floating past and gone — that's why fleetingness means the 'quality of lasting only a short time'.