short duration
Not lasting long
Short duration describes something lasting only a brief time.
The phrase appears most often in technical or formal contexts—finance, medicine, weather forecasting—where precision about time matters: short-duration bonds, a short-duration exposure to the chemical.
In casual speech, people more often say brief or short-lived.
- blipMomentary signal flash
- briefShort in duration
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
- momentBrief period of time
blink of an eye · ephemeral · transient · burst · flash in the pan · passing · instant · in a flash · jiffy · New York minute · snapshot · flicker · flash · hot minute · minute · brief spell · spell · second
short durationprolonged
Made to last longer
lengthy · long-lasting · extended · protracted · sustained
short durationpermanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
perpetuity · eternity · forever · everlasting · enduring