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The term ephemeral is a qualifying adjective that is used to designate those things or circumstances that last for a short time and that occur in a brief. The concept of ephemeral comes from the Greek, ephemers, which literally means 'that lasts a single day'. While this meaning implied the duration After a day, the term was later used for all those events, circumstances or things that tended to last a short time and to disappear quickly.

Normally, the term ephemeral is used mostly for natural events or phenomena since many of they can last only a few seconds and, although they are repeated over and over again, their specific duration is very brief. This type of event can be very varied and range from generation from a bubble to the generation of a wave in the sea, or of certain animal behaviors that last very little. In this sense, the notion of ephemeral generally also implies the notion of delicacy.

However, ephemeral events or circumstances do not occur only in the space of nature if not that many creations and situations related to human beings can be considered ephemeral. This is especially the case in postmodern societies in which the interest in constant change, in the development of new technologies, in permanent growth and in

discovery of new and unique sensations are features present in any social group. In this sense, many elements of our current life can be considered ephemeral and, although not all, many of them are related to this type of postmodern societies to which we make reference.

Examples of situations or ephemeral things for the human being can be the technological devices that minute by minute are improved and surpassed, the news that has ephemeral duration due to the constant influx of news or phenomena such as the same human relations that, today, tend to last much less than what happened centuries ago.

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