Thesaurus:moment

THESAURUS

moment

English

Noun

Sense: A brief, unspecified amount of time.

Synonyms

• bit    [WS]
• blink of an eye
• crack (British slang, dated)
• flash
• half a mo
• instant
• jiffy
• minute
• mo
• moment
• New York minute
• in nothing flat
• overnight
• sec
• second
• span
• spurt
• stound (archaic or dialectal)
• tick
• trice
• twinkle
• twinkling

Antonyms

• aeon
• age
• blue moon
• eon    [WS]
• forever    [WS]

Hypernyms

• period    [WS]
• uncertain period    [WS]

Various

• in two shakes
• Planck time

See also

• Thesaurus:ephemeral
• Thesaurus:temporarily
• Thesaurus:transience

Further reading

• “113. instantaneity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “moment” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.