Synonyms of instants

instants

noun

plural of instant

as in moments

a very small space of time

it all happened in an instant

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of instants

These days, the shows are bigger and the tickets sell out in instants, filling theaters around the country with concertgoers whose response to Geese’s music can best be described as rabid ecstasy. — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026

Recent instants, according to the company, will be saved in an archive that's private and only accessible to the user who takes it. — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 13 May 2026

Elle has become a collector of sounds, wandering the city with a pocket recorder in hand, creating what are, in effect, sonic images of instants stretched out into time. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026