Term Gallery logo

Meanings of fleetingness in English

The property of lasting for a very short time.

Synonyms
Examples for "ephemerality"
Examples for "ephemerality"
1
And now we're hitting a new apex of ephemerality in our currency.
Wired
2
He thinks it highlights the ephemerality of the human reign on Earth.
News.com.au
3
He is also good at illustrating the ephemerality of pop music.
The Irish Times
4
But then, ephemerality was the summation of most human activities.
The evolutionary void
5
Design projects this sense of immediacy and ephemerality not only through T-shirts or the Internet.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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