The property of lasting for a very short time

Usage examples of fleetingness.

Thus opposing grandeurs live Here if Beauty be their dower: Doth she of her spirit give, Fleetingness will spare her flower.

Abbey, yes, but as to the fleetingness of my visit, that remains to be seen.

But in his phases of contemplation the sense of fleetingness would enter deeply into his mind, so that at all times the physical features of the planet, the woods, the hills, the sea, affected him with an added poignancy.

In meditative awareness we find this joy in awakening to the timeless joy of God that ceaselessly plays itself out in the fleetingness of our day-by-day life.

In that moment of looking up to see the face of a friend, as if for the first time, or that moment of standing motionless at a breathtaking sunset or holding a sleeping infant, we fleetingly glimpse something of the full-statured stillness that eternally pervades the fleetingness of all things.

Occasionally patched, the stone bore testimony to endurance and beauty even as the graveyard contents announced the fleetingness of life.

Art--supposedly long-lived, in relation to the fleetingness of Time--yields to the clamour for reappraisal, along with everything else.

This then becomes the only defence against nostalgia in the face of the irremediable fleetingness of time.