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Meanings of fleetingness in English

The property of lasting for a very short time.

Usage of fleetingness in English
1
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
2
Bothered by the fleetingness of the performance, he began to record the music on his tape recorder.
The new yorker
3
The last word of the wise on life has ever been its fleetingness, its appalling changes, its unexpected surprises.
Friendship
4
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
Fleetingness through the time