transience

English

Etymology

transient +‎ -ence

Noun

transience (countable and uncountable, plural transiences)

The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.

Synonyms

(quality of being transient): temporariness, impermanence, transiency, transientness; see also Thesaurus:transience

Antonyms

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Translations

quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting

Bulgarian: преходност (bg) f (prehodnost), мимолетност (bg) f (mimoletnost)
Chinese: 短暫／短暂 (zh) (duǎnzàn)
Dutch: tijdeijkheid
German: Vergänglichkeit (de) f
Hungarian: múlékonyság (hu), tünékenység, átmenetiség
Japanese: 一過性 (ja) (ikkasei)

impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

Bulgarian: преходност (bg) f (prehodnost)
Dutch: vergankelijkheid (nl)
German: Vergänglichkeit (de) f
Hungarian: mulandóság (hu)
Japanese: 短命 (ja) (tammei)
Polish: przelotność (pl) f

References

“transience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
“transience”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

inertances, nectarines

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