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ephemeral

adj
/ɛˈfɛ.mə.ɹəl/

Etymology

From New Latin ephemerus, from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros), the more common form of ἐφημέριος (ephēmérios, “of, for, or during the day, living or lasting but for a day, short-lived, temporary”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).

  1. derived from ἐφήμερος
  2. borrowed from ephemerus

Definitions

  1. Lasting for a short period of time.

    • sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy
    • 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.

  2. Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.

  3. Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.

    • The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Something which lasts for a short period of time.

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Derived

bovine ephemeral fever, ephemeral fever, ephemeralization, ephemeralize, ephemeral lake, ephemerally, ephemeralness, ephemeral state, nonephemeral, unephemeral

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ephemeral. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ephemeral. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at ephemeral

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA