TRANSITORINESS

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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 ("transitoriness" is a kind of...):

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

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

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

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

Derivation:

transitory (lasting a very short time)