Thesaurus:moment
English
Noun
Sense: A brief, unspecified amount of time.
Synonyms
- bat of an eye (idiomatic)
- bit [⇒ thesaurus]
- blink of an eye (idiomatic)
- crack (British slang, dated)
- eyeblink (idiomatic)
- flash
- glimpse (rare)
- half a mo
- instant
- jiff
- jiffy
- jot (obsolete)
- minute
- mo
- moment
- New York minute
- New York second
- no time (idiomatic)
- sec
- second
- span
- split-second
- spurt
- stound (archaic or dialectal)
- tick
- trice
- twink
- twinkle
- twinkling
- while [⇒ thesaurus] (Philippines)
Antonyms
Hypernyms
- period [⇒ thesaurus]
- uncertain period [⇒ thesaurus]
Various
See also
Further reading
- “113. instantaneity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “moment” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.