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EPHEMERALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ephemerality mean?
• EPHEMERALITY (noun)
The noun EPHEMERALITY has 1 sense:
1. the property of lasting for a very short time
Familiarity information: EPHEMERALITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of lasting for a very short time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ephemerality; ephemeralness; fleetingness
Hypernyms ("ephemerality" is a kind of...):
transience; transiency; transitoriness (an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying)
Derivation:
ephemeral (lasting a very short time)
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