Synonyms of heartbeats

heartbeats

noun

plural of heartbeat

as in minutes

a very small space of time

I'd accept a job offer from that company in a heartbeat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• minutes
• seconds
• moments
• instants
• nanoseconds
• eyeblinks
• twinkles
• winks
• shakes
• beats
• twinklings
• split seconds
• flashes
• trices
• jiffies
• microseconds
• jiffs
• New York minutes
• snatches
• spurts

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ages
• aeons
• eternities
• lifetimes
• infinities
• forevers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of heartbeats

Her team found a 77% higher rate of irregular heartbeats during the six weeks around the 2016 election, compared with a control period. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 30 Oct. 2026

One promising alternative is to instead harvest energy from the body itself by capturing mechanical energy generated by the contraction of muscles, such as heartbeats, or the movement of fluids. — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026

Savannah also shares a bracelet that has their three children’s heartbeats on it, along with LeBron’s initials on the clasp. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026

Poetic structure, such as cadence, meter and rhyme, invokes rhythms that tie into human heartbeats and breathing. — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026

Gabe wears a bracelet containing some of her final heartbeats and her fingerprint. — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Others include Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light and sound installation Pulse Topology (2021), installed in 2023, in which visitors’ heartbeats inform the pulse of lights hanging overhead. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Simpson was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare heart condition that can cause irregular heartbeats and sudden cardiac death in seemingly healthy individuals, per John Hopkins Medicine. — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026

Researchers often use heart rate variability − the small differences in time between heartbeats − as one way to assess how that system is functioning. — Donnisa Edmonds, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2026