fugitivity

9.9

A state of lasting only a short time and hard to hold

noun
/fjuˈdʒɪtɪvɪti/

Literature

: fugacidad

His art captures the fugitivity of childhood, evoking memories that seem to vanish too quickly.

Over the the time that Angela was we were cheering her fugitivity.

Examples

In her poetry, she explores the fugitivity of happiness, highlighting how fleeting joyful moments can be.
The fugitivity of summer days often leaves us longing for their return come winter.
How does the environment permit or impede fugitivity, and by that I mean both orientation toward escape and practices of flight?
But along with their linguistic fugitivity, Slaughterhouse also reimagines God, effectively rendering God un-god-like.

Academic text (2016)
What is being spoken of when referring to Blackness-as-fugitivity is the contingency of a fugitivity that operates on the ontological modality.

Academic text (2016)
What is being spoken of when referring to Blackness-as-fugitivity is the contingency of a fugitivity that operates on the ontological modality.

Academic text (2016)
In this Black musical fugitivity, Slaughterhouse enacts a kind of theological play with the concept of God, in effect Blackening God-language.

Academic text (2016)
Because it counters the structuring and arbitrational tenets of (white) hegemony, Blackness, then, in all its subversiveness and fugitivity, is a site of pathology.

Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

impermanence

vsfugitivity

4 8.2

A state of not lasting forever and likely to change

focuses more on briefness and being hard to keep rather than change

transience

vsfugitivity

2 8.1

A short time before something changes or ends

is similar but emphasizes slipperiness or difficulty in keeping it

fleetingness

vsfugitivity

1 8.2

A short time that passes quickly

also suggests being difficult to keep rather than just brief

ephemerality

vsfugitivity

1 8.9

A state of lasting only a short time, like a rainbow

adds the extra idea of being hard to retain or grasp

fugacity

vsfugitivity

Specialized

9.9

A short life or existence of things like flowers

is broader and adds a sense of being hard to hold onto

fugaciousness

vsfugitivity

Specialized

9.9

A short life for plant parts like petals that fall quickly

is more general and includes a feeling of slipping away

ephemeralness

vsfugitivity

Specialized

9.1

The state of lasting only a short time

includes that brevity but stresses being elusive or hard to hold

impermanency

vsfugitivity

8.2

A temporary condition that does not last forever

is closer to shortness and also implies difficulty in holding it

Antonyms

stability

363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

permanence

15 5.5

A situation where something lasts a long time without big change

How Fleeting

ephemerality

1 8.9

fugitivity

Literature

9.9

evanescence

Literature

1 9.6

transience

2 8.1

impermanence

4 8.2

Surface Forms

fugitivity singular

fugitivities plural

Morphology

fugitivity = fugitive (semi-transparent) = fugitive + ity

The formation is regular (fugitive + -ity), but 'fugitive' is more commonly known as 'a person who flees' than the adjective 'fleeting', so learners may not reliably infer the noun's meaning.

Etymology

Fugitivity comes from the Latin root fug- meaning 'to flee', the same root as fugitive, a person who runs away. So fugitivity is the quality of being 'fleeting' or hard to hold onto.