Sudden vs Momentane - What's the difference?
sudden | momentane |
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
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, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
(Finnish grammar, Navajo grammar) A verb aspect indicating that an occurrence is sudden and short-lived.
As nouns the difference between sudden and momentane
is that sudden is (obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise while momentane is (finnish grammar|navajo grammar) a verb aspect indicating that an occurrence is sudden and short-lived.As an adjective sudden
is happening quickly and with little or no warning.As an adverb sudden
is (poetic) suddenly.sudden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden