Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word EPHEMERALITY

Definitions of EPHEMERALITY

1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
2. (countable) Something that is ephemeral.

Examples of Using EPHEMERALITY in a Sentence

• Ephemera and ephemerality have mutual connotations of "passing time, change, and the philosophically ultimate vision of our own existence".
• His poetry referenced medieval Bosnian tombstones ("stećci" or "mramorovi" - marbles) and their gnomic inscriptions on the ephemerality of life.
• The civil strife towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty gave the Jian'an poems their characteristic solemn yet heart-stirring tone, while lament over the ephemerality of life was also a central theme of works from this period.
• Ephemerality is a component of olfaction, breathing, speech and memory, aligned with permanency in the latter.
• Meatspace differentiates itself from other chat systems by eschewing usernames, user registration and chat channels, and instead embracing ephemerality.
• Fensterstock’s training in metalsmithing and jewelry dominated her early work that centered on conversations about adornment, beauty, preciousness, and ephemerality.
• In 1983, Manea published Energiile spectacolului (The Energies of Performance), a series of short meditations on directors (Liviu Ciulei, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook) and directing; playwrights (Sophocles, Gogol, Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Racine, Strindberg, Carlo Goldoni, Brecht, Chekhov, Molière, Marivaux); actors and acting; the ritual and psychological laws governing stage properties; the mechanisms of attention during performance (the director is an "engineer of attention"); theatre as officiation of a sacral rite; directorial intention, improvisation, chance, and the "entropic phenomenon" in theatrical performance; and the fundamental enigma and ephemerality of the theatrical act.
• Herzog's installations blur distinctions between two-and three-dimensional media, eliciting comparisons to late-modernist painting and drawing, yet they also upend that tradition through a subversive, deconstructive process that emphasizes ephemerality and fragility.

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