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- noun The quality of being
ephemeral ortransitory .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of lasting for a very short time
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Examples
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Reading the Parable of the Old Man and the Sock by Irving Karchmar, a dervish and novelist, made me reflect (once again) on the ephemeralness of life.
Fahad Faruqui: Ramadan: Raising Spiritual and Financial Stocks? 2010
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It seldom does The chief reason was slimmeroftheyea wanted me to see the bluebell wood before we lost them for this year, and glorious they were; blue beneath the broken ash woodland cover and of a peculiar mass ephemeralness.
In Dreadnaught Wood slimmeroftheyea 2006
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Yet we spend so much of our time here in endless conflict with others that we lose sight of the ephemeralness of life.
A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003
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Yet we spend so much of our time here in endless conflict with others that we lose sight of the ephemeralness of life.
A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003
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This intensity of perception is largely the result, or the cause, of the poet's unusually sensitive consciousness of the ephemeralness of love.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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I think about the seasons of life and the ephemeralness (is that a word?) of it every day.
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The film becomes a lovely elegy to both youth and age, to the fleeting ephemeralness of, you know, everything: love, friendship, wisdom.
FlickFilosopher.com 2009
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The very ephemeralness of a online version will keep it from becoming the dominant form.
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a kind of distinction to what are simply pamphlets or text-books that have been preserved by accident from the ephemeralness which was the common lot of hundreds of their fellows.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906
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