fleeting
adjective
passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory.
fleetingness
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a word derived from
fleeting.
Example Sentences
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It's only right that "Beetlejuice" accentuates the fleetingness of teenage intensity through a tragic opera.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024
Hamlet contemplates the fleetingness of existence through the moment.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In marble the distance between the two — between fleetingness and survival, between expressiveness and dumbness — is immense.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
There are suggestions of cumin and garlic, practically dreamlike in their fleetingness and formlessness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018
I suppose it is the fleetingness of life that makes us story tellers and flower thieves.
From Michelangelo's Shoulder by John Moncure Wetterau
