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ephemeral
adjective
(e-phem-er-al)
lasting a very short time
Synonyms:
fugacious
,
passing
, short-lived,
transient
,
transitory
,
Examples:
The ephemeral joys of childhood.
ephemeral
noun
(e-phem-er-al)
anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
Synonyms:
ephemeron
,
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impermanent
,
transitory
,
transient
,
temporary
,
passing
,
fugacious
,
short-lived
,
fleeting
,
fragile
,
perishable
,
mayfly
,
short
,
volatile
,
seasonal
,
brief
,
transitional
,
vertical
,
evanescent
,
illusory
,
ethereal
,
insubstantial
,
nebulous
,
illusionary
,
liminal
,
unimportant
,
inconsequential
,
impalpable
,
meaningless
,
formless
,
illusive
,
intangible
,
mundane
,
transcendent
,
otherworldly
,
vaporous
,
fickle
,
elusive
,
poetic
,
inanimate
,
ineffable
,
numinous
,
abstract
,
banal
,
graspable
,
mutable
,
transcendental
,
unnamable
,
placeless
,
performative
,
delusory
,
gossamer
,
chimerical
,
apparitional
,
individuated
,
immutable
,
easeful
,
eidetic
,
depictive
,
quotidian
,
contentless
,
irreproducible
,
chthonic
,
paradoxical
,
allusive
,
reified
,
aphoristic
,
ludic
,
caduke
,
incommensurable
,
amorphous
,
aleatory
,
unknowable
,
epiphanic
,
oneiric
,
phantasmal
,
metaphysical
,
unuttered
,
unmediated
,
proustian
,
depthless
,
connotative
,
illimitable
,
indefinable
,
fecund
,
edenic
,
illusional
,
overdetermined
,
wordsworthian
,
poetical
,
inchoate
,
alchemical
,
intrinsic
,
nonobjective
,
ineradicable
,
impressionistic
,
inextricable
,
essayistic
,
denotative
,
undefinable
,
abstruse
,
ephemeral
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