fleeting

[fleet·ing]

Fleeting is an adjective that describes something that happens really fast, or something that doesn’t last as long as you’d like.

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Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

Adjective S.
lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Fleet

a.
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.


Fleeting

Fleet"ing, a. Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.

Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

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Usage Examples

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

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Other Usage Examples

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

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