short lifespan
Quickly meeting death
A short lifespan is a brief duration of existence.
The phrase typically describes organisms that don't live long relative to others: Mayflies have notoriously short lifespans.
It extends to objects, institutions, or phenomena that don't last: The startup had a short lifespan, The treaty had a short lifespan before being violated.
- annual plantFlora living one season
- high temperatureElevated thermal measurement
- disposableMade for one use
- main sequenceStable stellar burning phase
- finiteHaving definite bounds
ephemeral · transient · flash in the pan · fast living · expendable · senescent · evanescent · mortal · single-use · mayfly · obsolete · supergiant · planned obsolescence · blue giant · aging · half-life · radioactive decay · perishable
- planned obsolescenceplanned obsolescence, forced updates, consumables
- massive starsblue supergiant, red supergiant, hypergiant
- tech problemsbug, paper jam, low ink, dropped calls, bugs
- cephalopodscephalopod, octopus, squid, nautilus, cuttlefish
- insect anatomyabdomen, antennae, thorax, exoskeleton, head
- design flawsdefect, flaw, fault, glitch, bug
short lifespanlong lifespan
Extended duration of existence
longevity · long life · long-lived · advanced age · old age
short lifespanimmortality
Exemption from death
eternal life · permanence · deathlessness · imperishability · timelessness