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Meaning of "ephemerality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EPHEMERALITY

ephemerality  [ɪˌfemərˈælətɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EPHEMERALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ephemerality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EPHEMERALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ephemeral

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Definition of ephemerality in the English dictionary

The definition of ephemerality in the dictionary is the state or quality of being ephemeral.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EPHEMERALITY


ambisexuality
ˌæmbɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
antisexuality
ˌæntɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
ethereality
ɪˌθɪərɪˈælətɪ
factuality
ˌfæktʃʊˈælətɪ
hypersexuality
ˌhaɪpəˌsɛksjʊˈælətɪ
intersexuality
ˌɪntəˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
notionality
ˌnəʊʃənˈælətɪ
nuptiality
ˌnʌpʃɪˈælətɪ
officiality
əˌfɪʃɪˈælətɪ
optionality
ˌɒpʃəˈnælətɪ
osmolality
ˌɒzməʊˈlælətɪ
pansexuality
pænˌsekʃʊˈælətɪ
parasexuality
pærəˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ
psychosexuality
ˌsaɪkəʊˌsɛksjʊˈælətɪ
seasonality
ˌsiːzənælətɪ
subspeciality
ˌsʌbspɛʃɪˈælətɪ
superficiality
ˌsuːpəfɪʃɪˈælətɪ
supersexuality
ˌsuːpərˌsekʃʊˈælətɪ
triaxiality
traɪˌæksɪˈælətɪ
unisexuality
ˌjuːnɪˌsɛkʃʊˈælətɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EPHEMERALITY

ephebic
ephebophilia
ephedra
ephedrin
ephedrine
ephelis
ephemera
ephemerae
ephemeral
ephemerally
ephemeralness
ephemerid
ephemerides
ephemeridian
ephemeris
ephemeris time
ephemerist
ephemeron
ephemeropteran
ephemerous

WORDS THAT END LIKE EPHEMERALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of ephemerality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ephemerality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EPHEMERALITY

Find out the translation of ephemerality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ephemerality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ephemerality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

短命
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

efímero
570 millions of speakers

English

ephemerality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्षणभंगुरता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ephemerality
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эфемерность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

efemeridade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ephemerality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

éphémère
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ephemerality
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vergänglichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

短命
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

덧없음
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ephemerality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ephemerality
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ephemerality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्षणभंगुरता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yüzeyselliği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

effimero
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nietrwaość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ефемерність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ephemerality
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ephemerality
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verganklike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ephemerality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forgjengelighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ephemerality

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EPHEMERALITY»

The term «ephemerality» is normally little used and occupies the 112.816 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of ephemerality
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «ephemerality».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EPHEMERALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ephemerality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ephemerality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ephemerality

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPHEMERALITY»

Discover the use of ephemerality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ephemerality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Companion to Museum Studies
The. Conundrum. of. Ephemerality: Time,. Memory,. and. Museums. Susan. A. Crane. The history of museums is the history of a conundrum: how is what is always the same also always different? A modern museum's mandate is to collect , ...
Sharon Macdonald, 2011
2
The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, ...
A. REINTERPRETATION. OF. NAHUA. POETIC. THEMES. Ephemerality,. War. and. Sacrifice,. and. Nezahualcoyotl. From the colonial period to the present, the lamentation of the transitory nature of earthly life has been considered one of the  ...
Jongsoo Lee, 2008
3
Gadamer on Celan: "Who Am I and Who Are You?" and Other Essays
gnawing, or better, a most intimately understood certainty of the finitude and ephemerality of our existence. The composition as a whole is unambiguously concise. There are two colons. The second is intensified by a hyphen. They allow the ...
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Richard Heinemann, Bruce Krajewski, 1997
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Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical ...
Syncopation troubles ephemerality. It troubles medial specificity. It “makes one endlessly troubled.”33 A small history of ephemerality The idea of the ephemeral has enjoyed a certain constitutive status in performance studies and has ...
Rebecca Schneider, 2011
5
Challenging Modernity: Dada Between Modern and Postmodern
Ephemerality. Dada, Huelsenbeck points out in Berlin, 'has a thoroughly ephemeral character, in that it has no desire to be anything more than a mirror which one quickly passes by';77 while in Paris, Breton states that: 'II est inadmissible qu'un ...
Mark A. Pegrum, 2000
6
International Handbook of Internet Research
Ephemerality. These themes picked from the mass of competing aesthetic activities online touch only the surface, and do so rather deliberately in the ambit of a gallery oriented (post)modernist mode of art making, validated by public ...
Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, Matthew Allen, 2010
7
A Vision of Human Solitude: Rhetoric of Isolation and ...
This thesis investigates the interrelationship between the two dominant themes, isolation and human ephemerality found in two of Virginia Woolf's books, To the lighthouse and The Waves.
Marsha Lee Schuh, 2007
8
Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies
It is this inculcation of the pleasure of ephemerality that is at the heart of the disciplining of the modern consumer. The valorization of ephemerality expresses itself at a variety of social and cultural levels: the short shelf- life of products, lifestyles, ...
David Palumbo-Liu, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, 1997
9
Ben Jonson and Envy
be distinguished from the creation of sanctuary in its particular fascination with death and ephemerality. Jonson's monument-building springs from a certain melancholic perception of his own mortality and the danger his mortality presents to ...
Lynn S. Meskill, 2009
10
Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity
FASHION'S. EPHEMERALITY. AS. FEMINIST. CONCEPTUAL. TOOL. All of the examples outlined above provide an outline of the ephemeral, or changeable, in the modern age. It must be noted that the ephemeral has historically been ...
Ilya Parkins, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPHEMERALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ephemerality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Japanese jeweller Jiro Kamata's Australian debut at Gallery Funaki …
They assert their materiality as substantial objects of darkened silver while at the same time acknowledging the ephemerality of our perception ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
Physical theatre gems in Grahamstown
As the name suggests, in Detritus for One he turns to his own memory in an attempt to demonstrate the beautiful ephemerality is that is live ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
3
Check Out The Hottest Celeb Pics This Week
... a collection that provides what high fashion and art already had: ephemerality. Introducing The Matrix Collection by Michael McHale Designs. «OK Magazine, Jul 15»
4
How to satisfy your travel bug and salvage your teeth
In an age characterised by the ephemerality of relationships, it is a wonder that people are taking such permanent steps to wear their heart on ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
5
Beet for iOS is a refreshingly strong rival for Snapchat
If you're tiring of Snapchat's ephemerality and looking for a creative way to share or record your experiences in a way that a photo can't capture, ... «The Next Web, Jul 15»
6
Marcin Rusak's flower power
... Prize 2015, Rusak's key interests include ideas of value, ephemerality and aesthetics – but more than anything, he's fascinated by flowers. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
robin rhode: chalk bikes, bulbs and barbed wire at lehmann maupin
... use of visual and verbal puns, the exhibition juxtaposes the heritage of his home country with the ephemerality of his artistic practice. «Designboom, Jul 15»
8
Bohemian Rhapsody turns 40; even Kanye West covered it at …
... as if they dig it despite its original ephemerality. With each new wave, the cycles become shorter, the new fans fewer, and the irony less ironic ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
9
Snapchat now lets you tap to view snaps and stories, add nearby …
In short, users have figured out Snapchat now, and they no longer need babysitting around the concept of ephemerality. “This means no more ... «VentureBeat, Jul 15»
10
Palaces of inspiration: How architecture feeds the imagination of art
Despite the disparity between the tangibility of architecture and the ephemerality of music, Rolnick believes the integrity of this underlying ... «CNN, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Ephemerality [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ephemerality>. Apr 2024 ».
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