momentary
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momentary
- /ˈmoʊmənˌtɛɹi/ US
- /ˈməʊmənt(ə)ɹi/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English momentare, from Late Latin mōmentārius (“of brief duration”), from mōmentum (“a short time, an instant”). By surface analysis, moment + -ary.
adjective more momentary · most momentary
- Lasting for only a moment.
- Happening at every moment; perpetual.
- Ephemeral or relatively short-lived. Yet oh! what an immense difference did I feel between this impression of a pleasure merely animal, and struck out of the collision of the sexes by a passive bodily effect, from that sweet fury, that rage of active delight which crowns the enjoyments of a mutual love-passion, where two hearts, tender
