Meanings
plural blinks of an eye
- idiomaticuncountableusuallyA moment (a very short period of time).
Just a blink of an eye later, he was gone.
2 more examples
Mother, remember the blink of an eye / When I breathed through your body?
2002, Iron & Wine, “Upward Over the Mountain”, in The Creek Drank the CradleIn the blink of an eye it just all slips away
2020, “Ready For More”, in Open up your head, performed by Sea GirlsSynonyms: bat of an eye, eyeblink, bat of an eye, bit, crack, eyeblink, flash, glimpse
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA moment (a very short period of time).
More synonyms by meaning
nouna very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans oomblik
- oomblikmoment (a very short period of time)
Bulgarian миг
- миг (mig)moment (a very short period of time)
Chinese Mandarin 眨眼, 瞬間 /瞬间
- 眨眼 (zhǎyǎn)moment (a very short period of time)
- 瞬間 /瞬间 (shùnjiān)moment (a very short period of time)
Danish øjeblik
- øjeblikmoment (a very short period of time)
Dutch ogenblik
- ogenblikmoment (a very short period of time)
Finnish silmänräpäys
- silmänräpäysmoment (a very short period of time)
French clin d'œil
- clin d'œilmoment (a very short period of time)
German Augenblick, Wimpernschlag
- Augenblickmoment (a very short period of time)
- Wimpernschlagmoment (a very short period of time)
- Augenschlagmoment (a very short period of time)
Hungarian szempillantás
- szempillantásmoment (a very short period of time)
Italian batter d'occhio, batter d'occhi
- batter d'occhiomoment (a very short period of time)
- batter d'occhimoment (a very short period of time)
- battito di cigliamoment (a very short period of time)
Japanese あっという間
- あっという間 (a-tto iu ma)moment (a very short period of time)
Latin nictātiō
- nictātiōmoment (a very short period of time)
Māori matakarapa
- matakarapamoment (a very short period of time)
Norwegian Bokmål øyeblikk
- øyeblikkmoment (a very short period of time)
Polish okamgnienie
- okamgnieniemoment (a very short period of time)
Portuguese piscar de olhos
- piscar de olhosmoment (a very short period of time)
Romanian clipă, clipită
- clipămoment (a very short period of time)
- clipitămoment (a very short period of time)
Russian мгнове́ние о́ка, мгнове́ние
- мгнове́ние о́ка (mgnovénije óka)moment (a very short period of time)
- мгнове́ние (mgnovénije)moment (a very short period of time)
Swedish ögonblick
- ögonblickmoment (a very short period of time)
Turkish an
- anmoment (a very short period of time)
Yiddish אויגנבליק
- אויגנבליק (oygnblik)moment (a very short period of time)
Cite this entry
blink of an eye. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blink%20of%20an%20eye
“blink of an eye.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blink%20of%20an%20eye. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blink of an eye,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blink%20of%20an%20eye.
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