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Definition of Fleetingness
1. Noun. The property of lasting for a very short time.
Generic synonyms: Transience, Transiency, Transitoriness
Derivative terms: Ephemeral, Ephemeral, Fleeting
Definition of Fleetingness
1. Noun. The quality of being fleeting ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fleetingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleetingness
Literary usage of Fleetingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology: An Elementary Text-book by Hermann Ebbinghaus (1908)
"If they were exactly like percepts, they would deceive us, as hallucinations do.
Their very lack of details and their fleetingness enable our mind to grasp ..."
2. The Catholic Pulpit: Containing a Sermon for Every Sunday and Holiday in the (1851)
"A third experience, which you have derived from the past, is of the nature of
your present existence, of its fleetingness and its uncertainty. ..."
3. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1905)
"It is throughout informed with his skepticism, his melancholy, his ever-present
sense of the shadowiness and the fleetingness of life. ..."
4. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"... •would seem to be an impossibility, though it is constantly being approached
in proportion to the unworthiness and fleetingness of the interests by ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... from Catullus and the Latin lyrists: the pagan lament for the fleetingness of
beauty and love—Ronsard's Ah, love me love! we may be happy yet, ..."
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