time's passage
How moments accumulate
Time's passage is the movement of time from past through present toward future—the sense that moments arrive, exist briefly, and recede into memory.
The phrase often carries a wistful or reflective tone: Time's passage had softened her grief.
It appears in contexts contemplating change, aging, or impermanence: The photograph showed time's passage in every wrinkle.
- hourglassGravity-powered sand timer
- agingGrowing older over time
- golden yearsLater life stage
- clockDevice displaying time
- erosionGradual wearing away
calendar · seasons · entropy · chronology · memory · decay · cycles · fleeting · fleeting moments · anticipation · impermanence · transience · future · tick tock · sundial · nostalgia · days gone by · presentism
time's passagetimelessness
Freedom from temporal decay
stasis · frozen moment · stillness · suspended animation · changelessness
time's passageinstant
Briefest unit of time
moment · split second · point in time · frozen moment · now
time's passageeternity
Boundless temporal existence
timelessness · the eternal · permanence · changelessness · infinity