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fleetingnesses

fleetingnesses is the plural of fleetingness.

Meaning of fleetingness

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

Questions about fleetingnesses

What is fleetingnesses the plural of?
Fleetingnesses is the plural of fleetingness.

Words near fleetingnesses in the dictionary

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

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