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Quickness vs Ephemerality - What's the difference?

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Quickness is a related term of ephemerality.


As nouns the difference between quickness and ephemerality

is that quickness is rapidity of movement or activity; agility or dexterity while ephemerality is (uncountable) the state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.

quickness

English

Noun

  • rapidity of movement or activity; agility or dexterity
    • The quickness of the hand deceives the eye.

    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