Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being fleeting; transientness; evanescence.

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  • noun The quality of being fleeting

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  • noun the property of lasting for a very short time

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Examples

  • Of course, the fleetingness, and the awareness of the fleetingness, of childhood and family happiness is hardly a novel artistic theme.

    Intimate History 2010

  • There's a lot of schmaltz I could spread for an answer -- that conversation is more authentic and less performed, more intimate and less displayed, magical in its fleetingness, and more existentially affirming in the ability, on occasion, to actually make eye contact.

    Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011

  • But it is the larger theme of the book that time steals everything eventually—that even the blue nights, the lingering evenings of the longest days of summer, signal in their fleetingness that all that is beautiful in life will fade.

    A Mother's Love And Laments 2011

  • Buddhism, with its profound awareness of the fleetingness of life and the endless cycle of death and rebirth, also proved to be congenial to a people forced to live with the constant threat of natural catastrophe.

    Japan's Shattered Mirror Ian Buruma 2011

  • There's a lot of schmaltz I could spread for an answer -- that conversation is more authentic and less performed, more intimate and less displayed, magical in its fleetingness, and more existentially affirming in the ability, on occasion, to actually make eye contact.

    Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011

  • There's a lot of schmaltz I could spread for an answer -- that conversation is more authentic and less performed, more intimate and less displayed, magical in its fleetingness, and more existentially affirming in the ability, on occasion, to actually make eye contact.

    Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011

  • The more meditative and engaged we are, the more we sense the fragility and fleetingness of things.

    Taking a Walk to Remember Sameer Reddy 2011

  • There's a lot of schmaltz I could spread for an answer -- that conversation is more authentic and less performed, more intimate and less displayed, magical in its fleetingness, and more existentially affirming in the ability, on occasion, to actually make eye contact.

    Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone Claire Gordon 2011

  • Of course, the fleetingness, and the awareness of the fleetingness, of childhood and family happiness is hardly a novel artistic theme.

    Intimate History 2010

  • May 11, 2010 at 3:29 am so against mono no aware insisting on non transience, so against notions of a floating world, against Ukiyo, impermanence, evanescence, fleetingness, etc

    Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Flower Robotics pre-interview 2010

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