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fleetingness

fleetingness noun: the quality of being fleeting.

Noun

fleetingness (countable and uncountable, plural fleetingnesses)

  1. The quality of being fleeting.
    • But the perpetual mutability and fleetingness of those immediate objects of sight render them incapable of being managed after the manner of geometrical figures […]1709, George Berkeley, An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, §156

Synonyms of fleetingness

Forms of fleetingness

pluralfleetingnesses

Origin of fleetingness

From fleeting + -ness.

Questions about fleetingness

What does fleetingness mean?
Fleetingness means the quality of being fleeting.
What part of speech is fleetingness?
Fleetingness is a noun.
What is the plural of fleetingness?
The plural of fleetingness is fleetingnesses.

Words near fleetingness in the dictionary

  1. fleeting
  2. fleeting note
  3. fleeting notes
  4. fleeting up
  5. fleetingly
  6. fleetingness
  7. fleetingnesses
  8. fleetings
  9. fleetly
  10. fleetmate
  11. fleetmates

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