fleetingness
Quality of passing
Fleetingness is the quality of passing quickly or lasting only a short time.
The word emphasizes how briefly something exists before it's gone: the fleetingness of youth, the fleetingness of a summer romance.
It often carries a note of wistfulness—awareness that what we value most tends not to last.
Lasting very briefly
- instantaneousHappening without any delay
- briefShort in duration
- quickMoving with speed
- rapidMoving with haste
swift · flash · blink · heartbeat · second · jiffy · nanosecond · twinkling
Quality of not lasting
- transienceBrevity of existence
- evanescenceGradual disappearance from existence
- temporalityState of existing briefly
- transitorinessQuality of not lasting
ephemerality · passing · mortality · finitude · wabi-sabi · mutability · dissolution · entropy
Tending to vanish quickly
- transitoryBrief in duration
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- fugaciousLasting very briefly
- impermanentNot meant to last
vanishing · fading · elusive · perishable · volatile · deciduous · fugitive · meteoric
momentary
Lasting very briefly
- instantaneousHappening without any delay
- briefShort in duration
- quickMoving with speed
rapid · swift · flash · blink · heartbeat · second · jiffy · nanosecond · twinkling · wink
impermanence
Quality of not lasting
- transienceBrevity of existence
- evanescenceGradual disappearance from existence
- temporalityState of existing briefly
transitoriness · ephemerality · passing · mortality · finitude · wabi-sabi · mutability · dissolution · entropy · decay
evanescent
Tending to vanish quickly
- transitoryBrief in duration
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- fugaciousLasting very briefly
impermanent · vanishing · fading · elusive · perishable · volatile · deciduous · fugitive · meteoric · evaporative
fleetingnesspermanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
permanency · eternity · endurance · longevity · perpetuity
fleetingnessconstancy
Unchanging faithfulness over time
immutability · steadfastness · fixedness · stability · unchangingness
fleeting, fleet, fleets, fleetingly, fleetness, fleetly, fleetest, fleet-footed