momentary
adjective
lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting.
momentariness
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a word derived from
momentary.
Example Sentences
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For the following reason also the origination of the world cannot be accounted for on the view of the momentariness of all existence.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut
It had become, because of his sense, his generation's sense, of the infirmity of things, a sort of symbol of the eternal flux, the eternal momentariness.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
The only Buddhist account available of the doctrine of momentariness is from the pen of Ratnakîrtti.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
This definition of existence naturally brings in the doctrine of momentariness shown by Ratnakîrtti.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
The rendering of muscle, supple and strong under the living epidermis, the glow of the flesh, the dramatic momentariness of the whole, have not been surpassed even by Titian.
From The Later Works of Titian by Claude Phillips
