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n. - The property of lasting for a very short time.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Adjective : the ephemeral joys of childhood. ,an ephemeral flower
  • This intensity of perception is largely the result, or the cause, of the poet's unusually sensitive consciousness of the ephemeralness of love.
  • Reading the Parable of the Old Man and the Sock by Irving Karchmar, a dervish and novelist, made me reflect (once again) on the ephemeralness of life.
  • The very ephemeralness of a online version will keep it from becoming the dominant form.
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