momentary

momentary
    adj 1: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance";
           "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of
           things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn:
           {fleeting}, {fugitive}, {momentaneous}, {momentary}]
    

Momentary \Mo"men*ta*ry\, a. [L. momentarius. See {Moment}.]
   Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very
   short time; as, a momentary pang.
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         This momentary joy breeds months of pain. --Shak.
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80 Moby Thesaurus words for "momentary":
      annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, brief, brittle,
      capricious, catamenial, centenary, centennial, changeable,
      corruptible, daily, decennial, deciduous, diurnal, dying,
      ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting,
      fly-by-night, flying, fortnightly, fragile, frail, fugacious,
      fugitive, hasty, hebdomadal, hourly, immediate, impermanent,
      impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, instant, instantaneous,
      insubstantial, lightning-like, menstrual, momentaneous, momently,
      monthly, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing,
      perishable, presto, quarterly, quick, quick as lightning,
      quick as thought, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual,
      semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, short, short-lived, temporal,
      temporary, tertian, transient, transitive, transitory, triennial,
      undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile, weekly, yearly