Fleetingness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being fleeting. countable, uncountable

    "But the perpetual mutability and fleetingness of those immediate objects of sight render them incapable of being managed after the manner of geometrical figures […]"

  2. 2
    the property of lasting for a very short time wordnet

Synonyms

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ephemeralitybrevitybriefnesscaducitydeathephemerality

Example

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"Butterflies are beautiful insects that have always symbolised eternity, grace, the fleetingness of life, and change."

Etymology

From fleeting + -ness.

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