fleeting
/ˈfliːtɪŋ
/adjective
Lasting for a very short time: for a fleeting moment I saw the face of a boy...
- Her heavy lids hid her eyes so well that they were seen only momentarily, like the fleeting glimpse of water in a deep well.
- Those joyful and fleeting moments in the streets give us a brief glimpse of what our worlds could be like.
- And for that brief, fleeting moment, it almost didn't seem so bad.
Synonyms
brief, transient, short-lived, short, momentary, sudden, cursory, transitory, ephemeral, fugitive, evanescent, fading, vanishing, flying, fly-by-night, passing, flitting, here today and gone tomorrow, temporary, impermanent, short-term, rapid, quick, swift, rushed
literary fugacious
Derivatives
fleetingness
- There were writers I'd never heard of, proving the fleetingness of fame.
- In the late fifties, for example, making art designed to live only in the present could embody a radical faith in fleetingness.
- A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life.
Rhymes
- milioline
- miliolite
- miliolite limestone
- miliolitic
- militancy
- militant
- militantism
- militantly
- militantness
- Militant tendency
- militaria
- militarily
- militariness
- militarise
- militarism
- militarist
- militaristic
- militaristically
- militarization
- militarize
- military
- military academy
- military age
- military architecture
- military art