Definition of Ephemeralness

1. Noun. The property of lasting for a very short time.

Exact synonyms: Ephemerality, Fleetingness
Generic synonyms: Transience, Transiency, Transitoriness
Derivative terms: Ephemeral, Ephemeral, Fleeting

Definition of Ephemeralness

1. Noun. The quality of being ephemeral or transitory. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephemeralness

ephedrines
ephedrins
ephelides
ephelis
ephemera
ephemerae
ephemeral
ephemeral fever
ephemeral fever of cattle
ephemeral fever virus
ephemeral lake
ephemeral lakes
ephemeralities
ephemerality
ephemerally
ephemeralness (current term)
ephemerals
ephemeran
ephemerans
ephemeras
ephemeric
ephemerid
ephemeride
ephemerides
ephemerids
ephemeris
ephemeris time
ephemerises
ephemerist
ephemerists

Literary usage of Ephemeralness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1904)
"... mushroom- like growth and a Jonah-gourd-like ephemeralness, but goaded the Gulliver of the Church of England to madness. Mr. Hutton has also read many ..."

2. Representative French lyrics of the nineteenth century by George Neely Henning (1913)
"This joy is of course not unclouded ; from the contemplation of the ruins of the past, from reflections on the ephemeralness of grandeur and the brevity of ..."

3. Poet Lore (1898)
"Like her, I felt fear of the ephemeralness of time. I gazed at the mist streaking over the Eagle and the Swan, or over the two Bears, the Dragon, ..."

4. Music (1899)
"The work of the Southern poet is frequently published in small volumes and even smaller editions, or is lost in newspaper ephemeralness. ..."

5. Hawthorne's Country by Helen Archibald Clarke (1910)
"... intensified in Hawthorne by his love of beauty, and he therefore has moods in which he would fain do away with the ephemeralness of earthly beauty. ..."

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