momentariness
- 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 Thibaut, George
This quality of "momentariness," as Phillips calls it, so dangerous in the hands of a commonplace painter, lends a peculiar fascination to many of Reynolds's pictures.
From Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
Cleopatra's watchful melancholy partook also of classic momentariness, and I hoped she would spring to her feet.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
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 Dasgupta, Surendranath
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 Thibaut, George
