fleetingness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fleetingness (countable and uncountable, plural fleetingnesses)
- The quality of being fleeting.
- 1709, George Berkeley, An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, §156:
- But the perpetual mutability and fleetingness of those immediate objects of sight render them incapable of being managed after the manner of geometrical figures […]
Synonyms[edit]
- (transience): ephemerality, briefness, transiency; see also Thesaurus:transience