fleetingness

noun

Definition of fleetingnessnext
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fleetingness
  1. transience
  2. impermanence
  3. ephemerality
  4. evanescence
  5. transiency
Noun
  • Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The trick is that transience itself takes on a thick, solid thinginess, each canvas barnacled over with paint.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of transience
Noun
  • Known for her evocative, atmospheric compositions, her practice emphasizes fluidity, texture and organic forms, creating a sense of movement and impermanence that mirrors the ever-changing environment.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • But the reality of their true impermanence has left us with even more ghosts to grieve in the wake of Liam’s death.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of impermanence
Noun
  • Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 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
Definition of ephemerality
Noun
  • Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • How to make meaning of one’s life, of life itself and the evanescence of memories, in the midst of pain and suffering?
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of evanescence
Noun
  • But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 27 July 2022
  • 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
Definition of transiency
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