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Meanings of ephemeralness in English

The property of lasting for a very short time.

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        Examples for "ephemerality"
        Examples for "ephemerality"
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        And now we're hitting a new apex of ephemerality in our currency.
        Wired
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        He thinks it highlights the ephemerality of the human reign on Earth.
        News.com.au
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        He is also good at illustrating the ephemerality of pop music.
        The Irish Times
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        But then, ephemerality was the summation of most human activities.
        The evolutionary void
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        Design projects this sense of immediacy and ephemerality not only through T-shirts or the Internet.
        The Civilization of Illiteracy
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        The specter of terrorism hovers, offering reminders of life's fleetingness and raising questions of its purpose.
        A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future
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        Bothered by the fleetingness of the performance, he began to record the music on his tape recorder.
        The new yorker
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        The last word of the wise on life has ever been its fleetingness, its appalling changes, its unexpected surprises.
        Friendship
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        His sense of his own unworthiness I have called morbid; morbid, too, were his sense of the fleetingness of life and his concern for death.
        Memories and Portraits