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
Mohammadi works with materials that disintegrate, for instance halva, soap, letting their ephemerality echo the fragility of memory.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ephemerality
Noun
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Much of Gilbert’s early work displays an awareness of both the profundity and the transience of romance, and of the many different universes that one life can open into or contain.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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The April cherry trees, with their brief pink opulence, seem infused with the spirit of mono no aware—the Japanese idea of the transience of things, the gentle sadness yet also the beauty of impermanence.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The April cherry trees, with their brief pink opulence, seem infused with the spirit of mono no aware—the Japanese idea of the transience of things, the gentle sadness yet also the beauty of impermanence.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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The impermanence of these structures, contrasted with the enduring river, is a reminder of history's ebb and flow.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 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 9 Sep. 2025.
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