ephemerality
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ephemerality (countable and uncountable, plural ephemeralities)
- (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
- (countable) Something that is ephemeral.
- 1961, Lewis Mumford, The City in History, Harcourt, Brace & World, page 242:
- So, too, the multiplication of bathrooms and the over-expenditure on broadly paved motor roads, and above all, the massive collective concentration on glib ephemeralities of all kinds, performed with supreme technical audacity.
Synonyms edit
- (state or condition of being ephemeral): ephemeralness, evanescence, impermanence, transience, transiency, volatility; see also Thesaurus:transience