Dalliance vs Ephemeral - What's the difference?
dalliance | ephemeral |
Playful flirtation; amorous play.
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A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
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A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
Lasting for a short period of time.
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(biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
(geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
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As nouns the difference between dalliance and ephemeral
is that dalliance is playful flirtation; amorous play while ephemeral is something which lasts for a short period of time.As an adjective ephemeral is
lasting for a short period of time.dalliance
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Noun
(en noun)- As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance , which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
Synonyms
* (a wasting of time) dawdling, idling, trifling * (playful flirtation) flirtation * (sexual relationship) affairephemeral
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(wikipedia ephemeral)Synonyms
* (short-lived) ephemeronAdjective
(en adjective)- Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
- 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.
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- 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.