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The property of lasting only a short time
Answer for the clue "The property of lasting only a short time ", 13 letters:
temporariness
Word definitions for temporariness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Temporariness \Tem"po*ra*ri*ness\, n. The quality or state of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of lasting only a short time
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being temporary.
Usage examples of temporariness.
Here at last was a dramatic cityscape, built on hills fronting the sea, the very verticality and concentration of its settlement pattern suggesting a richer past and tradition than the flat godowns by the Atlantic at Abidjan and Conakry, which reeked of temporariness, however much larger than Freetown they may have been.
This implies temporariness in the structure of both public and personal value systems, and it suggests that whatever the content of values that arise to replace those of the industrial age, they will be shorter-lived, more ephemeral than the values of the past.