as in transience
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
a poem about the ephemerality of beauty
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Recent Examples of ephemerality
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.
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Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
Today, no tourist can visit that work in The Louvre and no billionaire can buy it at auction—its beauty was in its ephemerality.
—Ian Malone, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Through that love and care, and ephemerality and movement over permanence and rigidity.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.
—Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
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Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
Today, no tourist can visit that work in The Louvre and no billionaire can buy it at auction—its beauty was in its ephemerality.
—Ian Malone, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Through that love and care, and ephemerality and movement over permanence and rigidity.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.
—Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for ephemerality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ephemerality
Noun
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While these two exhibits may feel distinct, for Suh, all of his work interrogates the boundaries between personal and public space, and the conditions that force transience or enable permanence.—
Megan Williams,
CNN Money,
1 May 2025
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Fallen blossoms whisper on the damp earth, a fleeting poem of transience.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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These works, made entirely in nature and left to be reclaimed by it, speak to a deep reverence for impermanence and the fleeting beauty of the world around us.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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Her installation of long, wide sheets of light-sensitive film, draped from the ceiling and eventually bearing traces of sunlight and heat, was one of the highlights of last year’s Whitney Biennial, part of her ongoing investigations into impermanence, inheritance, memory, and time.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Stranger with its exploration of another facet of exile and belonging, this time set on a flood-prone German island that exists in a perpetual struggle between evanescence and permanence.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2025
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But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
27 July 2022
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The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.—
Laura Groch,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2021
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“Ephemerality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ephemerality. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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