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
In the 21st century, an array of avant-garde fashion designers have been drawn to the beauty and ephemerality of glass, which serves as a meta commentary on the transience of fashion—and life itself.
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
The statistic is notoriously volatile, and averaging such a short period only exacerbates its ephemerality.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
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
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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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
The statistic is notoriously volatile, and averaging such a short period only exacerbates its ephemerality.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
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
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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Café Lisbeth hosts exhibitions on themes of transience and how humans have grappled with life’s passages throughout history.—
Diana Hubbell,
Saveur,
16 Oct. 2025
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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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Luzzatto said the relative shortness of that term is scaring away capital.—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
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He had been introduced to the practice by Love, a fellow writer and spiritual seeker, but didn’t pursue it in earnest until after Love’s death, when its concepts of nonattachment and impermanence provided solace.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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This sense of musical object impermanence is tied directly to the kind of preemptive doubt that Young expressed, and that Roan was effectively threatened with.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
4 Oct. 2025
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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 20 Oct. 2025.
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