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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The two reasons again which were said to prove the momentariness of jars are invalid because they may be made to prove just the contrary of what they are alleged to prove.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut
There was a sense of momentariness and expectation.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
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
Its momentariness impressed it the more vividly on my memory—I have it there still.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
