fleetingness
- 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
In Mrs. Bell’s, a self-portrait by Celia Paul hovers like a spectral reminder of the fleetingness of youth.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Hamlet contemplates the fleetingness of existence through the moment.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
There are suggestions of cumin and garlic, practically dreamlike in their fleetingness and formlessness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018
His sense of his own unworthiness I have called morbid; morbid, too, were his sense of the fleetingness of life and his concern for death.
From Memories and Portraits by Stevenson, Robert Louis
