A person who studies, collects, or is knowledgeable about ephemera, such as mayflies or short-lived printed materials.
From ephemer- (Greek ephemeros) plus the agent suffix -ist, indicating a person involved with or specializing in something.
Ephemerists range from entomologists studying mayflies to historians collecting old tickets and postcards—they're people fascinated by things designed to vanish.
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