Fleetingness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 the property of lasting for a very short time wordnet
Example
More examples"Butterflies are beautiful insects that have always symbolised eternity, grace, the fleetingness of life, and change."
Etymology
From fleeting + -ness.