fleeting
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fleeting
- /ˈfliːtɪŋ/
Rhymes with -iːtɪŋ
Where it comes from
From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
adjective more fleeting · most fleeting
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Passing quickly; of short duration.
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 transi
Similar: transient, ephemeral, fugacious, earthly, brief, deciduous, evanescent, fleeting, flying, fugitive, instant, momentary
- That which flees, especially quickly; fugitive.
noun
- An automatic operation mode of an absolute signal that reserves a route for several trains following one another, without the need for dispatcher to re-set the route for each train.
verb
- present participle and gerund of fleet
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: momentary, momentaneous, moving, short, fugitive, transient, ephemeral, transitory, short-lived, temporary, short-term, brief, unique, elusive, volatile, mayfly
Translations
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adj passing quickly
| Español | fugaz, pasajero, breve, efímero, instantáneo, momentáneo |
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| 日本語 | 儚い hakanai |
| 中文 | 飛逝的 /飞逝的 fēishì de, 短暫的 /短暂的 duǎnzàn de |
| Português | fugaz |
| Français | fugace, éphémère, passagère |
| Deutsch | flüchtig, unbeständig, vergänglich, kurz |
| Italiano | fugace, sfuggevole, sfuggente, fuggevole |
| Ελληνικά | πρόσκαιρος próskairos, εφήμερος efímeros |
| Română | fugaci, fugitiv |
| Русский | мимолётный mimoljótnyj, скороте́чный skorotéčnyj |
| עברית | בן חלוף bén khalóf, בת חלוף bát khalóf |
noun Translations
| Русский | автодействие avtodejstvije |
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Talk about this word "fleeting." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fleeting. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. fleeting. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fleeting "fleeting." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fleeting.Cite this
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title = {fleeting},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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