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Briefness vs Ephemerality - What's the difference?

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Briefness is a related term of ephemerality.


As nouns the difference between briefness and ephemerality

is that briefness is the characteristic of being brief while ephemerality is (uncountable) the state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.

briefness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The characteristic of being brief.

    • ephemerality

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
  • (countable) Something that is ephemeral.
  • * 1961 , , The City in History , Harcourt, Brace & World, p. 242:
    • So, too, the multiplication of bathrooms and the over-expenditure on broadly paved motor roads, and above all, the massive collective concentration on glib ephemeralities of all kinds, performed with supreme technical audacity.

    Synonyms

    * (state or condition of being ephemeral) ** ephemeralness ** evanescence ** impermanence ** transience / transiency ** volatility