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fleetingness

NOUN
  1. the property of lasting for a very short time

How To Use fleetingness In A Sentence

  • Scarry asserts in Dreaming by the Book, — its faintness, two-dimensionality, fleetingness, and dependence on volitional labor — with the vivacity, solidity, persistence, and givenness of the perceptible world .... this comes about because we are given procedures for reproducing the deep structure of perception, and because the procedures themselves have an instructional character that duplicates the Seeing Is Reading
  • It may be suggested, in tones of some remonstrance, that things like "though pierced by the cruel acerb," or "thy fleetingness is bigger in the ghost," or "her gabbling grey she eyes askant," or "sheer film of the surface awag" are not taking Nature naturally. The Victorian Age in Literature
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