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Momentary

//ˈmoʊmənˌtɛɹi// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lasting for only a moment.
  2. 2
    Happening at every moment; perpetual. obsolete
  3. 3
    Ephemeral or relatively short-lived.

    "Yet oh! what an immense difference did I feel between this impression of a pleasure merely animal, and struck out of the collision of the sexes by a passive bodily effect, from that sweet fury, that rage of active delight which crowns the enjoyments of a mutual love-passion, where two hearts, tenderly and truly united, club to exalt the joy, and give it a spirit and soul that bids defiance to that end which mere momentary desires generally terminate in, when they die of a surfeit of satisfaction!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    lasting for a markedly brief time wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English momentare, from Late Latin mōmentārius (“of brief duration”), from mōmentum (“a short time, an instant”). By surface analysis, moment + -ary.

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