Home › Words › E › eyewinkeyewinkeyewink means an instant, a short moment.EtymologyFrom eye + wink.nounAn instant, a short moment.e.g.“As to age, Bead could not form any clear impression; he might have been twenty, or forty. All of this visual perception occurred in an eyewink of time […]” — 1972, John Ferguson, War and the creative arts: an anthology:The winking of an eye.e.g.“Dogs were conditioned to give an eyewink to light by pairing a light and a puff of air to the cornea.” — 1943, Clifford Thomas Morgan, Physiological psychology:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.eyewinker 70% match — An eyelash. vs eyewink →awink 69% match — Winking. vs eyewink →eyeblink 69% match — An act of blinking one's eyelids one time. vs eyewink →instant 66% match — A very short period of time; a moment. vs eyewink →winking 65% match — The act of someone who winks. vs eyewink →eyebeam 63% match — A glance of the eye. vs eyewink →sunblink 62% match — A glimpse or flash of the sun. vs eyewink →nictitation 62% match — Winking, blinking vs eyewink →