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ephemeralization

ephemeralization noun: the process of making something ephemeral.

Noun

ephemeralization (uncountable)

  1. The process of making something ephemeral.
  2. A technological progression towards being able to do more and more work with fewer resources.

Origin of ephemeralization

From ephemeral + -ization. In the technological sense, coined by Richard Buckminster Fuller in 1938.

Questions about ephemeralization

What does ephemeralization mean?
Ephemeralization means the process of making something ephemeral.
What part of speech is ephemeralization?
Ephemeralization is a noun.

Words near ephemeralization in the dictionary

  1. ephemeral lakes
  2. ephemeral state
  3. ephemeral states
  4. ephemeralities
  5. ephemerality
  6. ephemeralization
  7. ephemeralize
  8. ephemeralized
  9. ephemeralizes
  10. ephemeralizing
  11. ephemerally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ephemeralization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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