passage of time
Hours becoming days
The passage of time is time's forward movement, often invoked when duration matters: The passage of time had softened her anger.
The phrase emphasizes time as something that passes through or over us, leaving change in its wake.
Legal and bureaucratic contexts use it to mark elapsed periods: With the passage of time, the statute of limitations expired.
- temporalityState of existing briefly
- transienceBrevity of existence
- fleeting momentsBrief experiences that pass quickly
- momentBrief period of time
- impermanenceQuality of not lasting
the long haul · ephemerality · vanitas · duration · aging · growing old · chronology · days gone by · lapse · fleetingness · memento mori · meantime · entropy · changing seasons · retrospection · nostalgia · seasonal cycle · decay
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
- narrative timeflashback, flashforward, foreshadowing, pacing, chronology
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- melancholysadness, sorrow, gloom, woe, dejection
- ChekhovAnton Chekhov, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, playwright, Uncle Vanya
passage of timetimelessness
Freedom from temporal decay
standstill · stasis · time freeze · stopped clock · suspended animation
passage of timepermanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
changelessness · immutability · preservation · constancy · agelessness
time, passage, times, timeless, timer, timely, timing, timetable, untimely