Fleeting vs Fading - What's the difference?
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Passing quickly.
* 1931 , Martha Kinross, "The Screen — From This Side", The Fortnightly , Volume 130,
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-19, volume=409, issue=8858, magazine=(The Economist), author=Banyan
, title= The act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.
* 1854 , (Herman Melville), (Israel Potter)
(obsolete) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Fleeting is a related term of fading.
As verbs the difference between fleeting and fading
is that fleeting is while fading is .As an adjective fleeting
is passing quickly.As a noun fading is
the act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.fleeting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 511:
- Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.
pages 34-35:
- During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.
page 12:
- For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.
page 5:
- And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.
Synonyms
* ephemeral * See also .Verb
(head)fading
English
Verb
(head)The meaning of Sachin, passage=With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.}}
Noun
(en noun)- Fading is a fine jig.
- delicate burthens of dildos and fadings