Usually means: Temporary, brief duration; quickly passing.
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  1. fleetingness: Merriam-Webster
  2. fleetingness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fleetingness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fleetingness: Vocabulary.com
  5. fleetingness: Wordnik
  6. fleetingness: Wiktionary
  7. fleetingness: Dictionary.com
  8. fleetingness: Rhymezone
  9. fleetingness: FreeDictionary.org
  10. fleetingness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. fleetingness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The quality of being fleeting.

Similar:
ephemeralness, ephemerality, evanescence, transience, transientness, flightiness, short-livedness, fickleness, fugacity, fugitiveness, more...

Opposite:
permanence, endurance, longevity

Types:
ephemeral, fleeting, transient, momentary, impermanent, imperishability, more...

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Similar:
ephemeralness, ephemerality, evanescence, transience, transientness, flightiness, short-livedness, fickleness, fugacity, fugitiveness, more...

Opposite:
permanence, endurance, longevity

Types:
ephemeral, fleeting, transient, momentary, impermanent, imperishability, more...



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