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Ephemeral vs Established - What's the difference?

ephemeral | established |

As adjectives the difference between ephemeral and established

is that ephemeral is lasting for a short period of time while established is of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.

As a noun ephemeral

is something which lasts for a short period of time.

As a verb established is

(establish).

ephemeral

English

(wikipedia ephemeral)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something which lasts for a short period of time.

    • Synonyms

    * (short-lived) ephemeron

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lasting for a short period of time.
  • * Vicesimus Knox
    • Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
  • * Sir J. Stephen
    • sentences not of ephemeral , but of eternal, efficacy
  • * '>citation
    • 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.
  • (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.
  • * 1986 , W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Y?ichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9, page 80:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (lasting for a short period of time) temporary, transitory, fleeting, evanescent, momentary, short-lived, short, volatile * See also

    Antonyms

    * (lasting for a long period of time) permanent, eternal, everlasting, timeless.

    Derived terms

    * ephemerally

    Related terms

    * ephemera * ephemeron * ephemerality

    External links

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    established

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (establish)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
    • Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.
  • (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

    • Derived terms

    * established church * long-established

    Synonyms

    * (abbreviation)