as in temporariness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
the momentariness of the pain from the needle prick hardly compares to the lasting good feelings that a blood donor experiences
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But the reality of their true impermanence has left us with even more ghosts to grieve in the wake of Liam’s death.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
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The bespoke surroundings were special, but so was a sense of impermanence — the same group of musicians, cast, and crew will never be gathered after doing that specific shooting on that specific day ever again — that worked its way into the music, too.Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2024
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Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
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The trick is that transience itself takes on a thick, solid thinginess, each canvas barnacled over with paint.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.Dallas News, Dallas News, 27 July 2022
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The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
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Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
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There’s an appreciation of life and its ephemerality, a belief in the essential beauty of it all.Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 28 June 2024
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Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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How to make meaning of one’s life, of life itself and the evanescence of memories, in the midst of pain and suffering?Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Momentariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/momentariness. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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