TRANSIENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The attribute of being brief or fleeting

Synonyms:

brevity; briefness; transience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("transience" is a kind of...):

duration; length (continuance in time)

Derivation:

transient (lasting a very short time)

Meaning:

An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

Synonyms:

transience; transiency; transitoriness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("transience" is a kind of...):

impermanence; impermanency (the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transience"):

fugaciousness; fugacity (the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts))

ephemerality; ephemeralness; fleetingness (the property of lasting for a very short time)