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ephemeral🔊

Something which lasts for a short period of time.

📑 Synonyms: ephemeron

Lasting for a short period of time.

💬 Quotations
It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows.

(biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.

(geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.

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