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fleetingness

noun

Etymology

From fleeting + -ness.

  1. derived from *plewd-✻
  2. inherited from *fleutaną✻
  3. inherited from flēotan
  4. inherited from fleten
  5. suffixed as fleetingness — “fleeting + ness”

Definitions

  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 […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fleetingness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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