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 many ways, nature serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion—its rebirth, renewal, and cyclicity, as well as its transience, ephemerality, and evanescence.
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Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
There’s an appreciation of life and its ephemerality, a belief in the essential beauty of it all.
—Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 28 June 2024
Between the exhibit and the dress code, there were several avenues for guests to explore, from the more esoteric (ephemerality, preservation, degradation, fragility) to the literal (time, gardens).
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 May 2024
And yet the delicate outstretched stems of these towering arrangements highlight perhaps the most beautiful thing about flowers: their ephemerality.
—Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
There’s an appreciation of life and its ephemerality, a belief in the essential beauty of it all.
—Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 28 June 2024
Between the exhibit and the dress code, there were several avenues for guests to explore, from the more esoteric (ephemerality, preservation, degradation, fragility) to the literal (time, gardens).
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 May 2024
And yet the delicate outstretched stems of these towering arrangements highlight perhaps the most beautiful thing about flowers: their ephemerality.
—Alice Cavanagh, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for ephemerality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ephemerality
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Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
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The trick is that transience itself takes on a thick, solid thinginess, each canvas barnacled over with paint.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
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This inherent impermanence makes tariffs totally ineffective at driving long-term corporate decision-making regarding where to locate facilities and jobs.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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In each of these works, Sugimoto expresses his lifelong existential investigation of permanence and impermanence, of what is and is not real, of form and emptiness, and in doing so his works of art capturie the unimaginable and the unseen.Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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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 6 Jan. 2025.
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