ephemerality

noun

ephem·​er·​al·​i·​ty i-ˌfe-mə-ˈra-lə-tē 

-ˌfē-

plural ephemeralities

1

ephemeralities plural : ephemeral things

2

: the quality or state of being ephemeral

Synonyms

• evanescence
• fleetingness
• fugitiveness
• impermanence
• impermanency
• momentariness
• temporariness
• transience
• transiency
• transitoriness

Examples of ephemerality in a Sentence

a poem about the ephemerality of beauty

Recent Examples on the Web

Flowers are often emblems of ephemerality and mortality, as in the vanitas paintings so common in 17th-century Europe, where elaborate bouquets were often paired with skulls, fruit, and other reminders that blooming and decaying, life and death, are inseparable. —Rebecca Solnit october 19, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2021

Mohammadi works with materials that disintegrate, for instance halva, soap, letting their ephemerality echo the fragility of memory. —Nargess Banks, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025

Jia’s sense of the ephemerality of the medium, and of the world that the medium reflects, has seldom been more stirringly profound. —Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 May 2025

Through that love and care, and ephemerality and movement over permanence and rigidity. —Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for ephemerality

• bisexuality
• collegiality
• conditionality
• congeniality
• conventionality
• conviviality
• dimensionality
• directionality
• emotionality
• essentiality
• eventuality
• grammaticality