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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There were millions of men in France, each the spit of the rest for mud and momentariness of acquaintance.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
It has been shown that neither origination from nothing, as held by the advocates of general momentariness, is possible; nor the passing away into nothing on the part of the thing originated.
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 doctrine of momentariness ought to be a direct corollary of the Buddhist metaphysics.
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
