as in transience
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
a poem about the ephemerality of beauty
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Recent Examples of ephemerality
In many ways, nature serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion—its rebirth, renewal, and cyclicity, as well as its transience, ephemerality, and evanescence.
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Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
There’s an appreciation of life and its ephemerality, a belief in the essential beauty of it all.
—Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 28 June 2024
Between the exhibit and the dress code, there were several avenues for guests to explore, from the more esoteric (ephemerality, preservation, degradation, fragility) to the literal (time, gardens).
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 May 2024
And yet the delicate outstretched stems of these towering arrangements highlight perhaps the most beautiful thing about flowers: their ephemerality.
—Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
There’s an appreciation of life and its ephemerality, a belief in the essential beauty of it all.
—Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 28 June 2024
Between the exhibit and the dress code, there were several avenues for guests to explore, from the more esoteric (ephemerality, preservation, degradation, fragility) to the literal (time, gardens).
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 May 2024
And yet the delicate outstretched stems of these towering arrangements highlight perhaps the most beautiful thing about flowers: their ephemerality.
—Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for ephemerality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ephemerality
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But like him, Edwards said, every resident in the city affected by the wildfires is also learning a valuable lesson about the transience of possessions.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
12 Jan. 2025
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But that depth is harder to maintain in the NIL/portal era of player transience.—
Matt Baker,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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But the movement took off only after the horrors of the Franco-Prussian War drove artists to create works focused on the impermanence of life.—
Staff,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Dec. 2024
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But there is also a Japanese tradition, much influenced by the Buddhist notion of impermanence, that delights in the fleetingness of beauty, as with the cherry blossom that swiftly loses its bloom.—
Ian Buruma,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
27 July 2022
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The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.—
Laura Groch,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2021
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“Ephemerality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ephemerality. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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