fleetingness

Definitions

The quality or state of lasting for only a very short time.

The transient or ephemeral nature of something.

Examples

The poet often wrote about the fleetingness of youth and the inevitable passage of time.

She found a strange comfort in the fleetingness of the sunset, knowing that beauty is often defined by its brevity.

Synonyms

transience ephemerality brevity impermanence momentariness evanescence short-lived nature

Antonyms

permanence endurance eternity perpetuity durability constancy everlastingness