'Ephemeral' means lasting for a very short time — transient or fleeting. Its opposite is 'everlasting', meaning lasting forever or for a very long time. Options (b), (c), and (d) — evanescent, transient, fleeting — are all synonyms of ephemeral, not antonyms.
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