Fleeting vs Volatile - What's the difference?
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Passing quickly.
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(physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
(of a substance, informal) explosive.
(of a price etc) variable or erratic.
(of a person) quick to become angry or violent.
fickle.
temporary or ephemeral.
(of a situation) potentially violent.
(computing, of a variable) having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
(computing, of memory) whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
(obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
Volatile is a synonym of fleeting.
As adjectives the difference between fleeting and volatile
is that fleeting is passing quickly while volatile is evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.As a verb fleeting
is present participle of lang=en.fleeting
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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.
