as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
nothing makes the fleetingness of summer more apparent than the arrival of Labor Day
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Noun
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Also memorable is an earlier image while still in Hamburg, in Sarah’s apartment, where the passing trains through the window underline the overall feeling of transience.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2025 -
The transience of childhood gives way to a permanence that defines adulthood.—
Rick Tumlinson,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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As the ground becomes submerged and then reappears, water-logged, altered yet resilient, so too Munir rises from his inner darkness, still carrying the burden of exile but able to continue his existence, more accepting of his impermanence in light of a greater concept of home.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2025
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But as a Zen teacher, Miller has spent decades contemplating the impermanence of life.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA TODAY,
9 Jan. 2025
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Through that love and care, and ephemerality and movement over permanence and rigidity.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.—
Caroline Newton,
Bon Appétit,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Stranger with its exploration of another facet of exile and belonging, this time set on a flood-prone German island that exists in a perpetual struggle between evanescence and permanence.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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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“Fleetingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fleetingness. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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