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ephemerality

[ih-fem-uh-ral-i-tee] / ɪˌfɛm əˈræl ɪ ti /




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The company prizes ephemerality in a quasi-Buddhist way: They treat their pieces like mandalas, spending a month gathering grains of sand only to blow them away at the end.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2026

For those who have forgotten about Deen’s massive, global reach prior to her undoing, the movie is an eye-popping reminder of celebrity ephemerality.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2025

In “See Through,” artists Nadia Ahmed and Shannon Hobbs work with wax to examine the ephemerality of relationships.

From Seattle Times May 17, 2024

“The idea of the going-out top is sort of inherently linked to ephemerality and experimentation,” Idacavage says.

From Washington Post Jan. 7, 2023

The news, formed and conveyed outside the institution of media, reads as a manifesto of immediacy, but also as a testimony to ephemerality.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

Few things better represent life’s varied ephemeralities than being excited about fall foliage’s exploding colors, just before the leaves die and become the primary ingredient in wintry, brown sidewalk sludge.

From Salon Oct. 7, 2025

This lively companion however having acquired a habit of running into that little room, and finding Gerard good company, often looked in on him, and chatted ephemeralities while Gerard wrote the immortal lives.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

On the real "great questions" Tennyson was not loth to speak, and spoke gravely enough; even to the ephemeralities, as we have said, he paid rather too much than too little attention.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

This lively companion, however, having acquired a habit of running into that little room, and finding Gerard good company, often looked in on him, and chattered ephemeralities while Gerard wrote the immortal lives.

From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade




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