Dictionary

transience en · NOUN

Etymology

From transient + -ence.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
2. (countable, uncountable) An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.

Forms

Antonyms

persistence · endlessness · permanence · chronicity · durability · inveteracy

Hypernyms

finity

Hyponyms

evanescence

Relateds

moment · transient · temporarily · ephemeral · transiently

Synonyms

temporariness (quality of being transient) · transiency · caducity · fugacity · ephemeralness · transience · brevity · ephemerality · transitoriness · briefness · transientness · fleetingness · impermanence

Translations (17)

nl tijdeijkheid (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · bg преходност (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · pl przelotność (impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying) · sv flyktighet (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · ja 一過性 (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · nl vergankelijkheid (impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying) · sv förgängelse (impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying) · hu múlékonyság (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · hu tünékenység (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · zh 短暫 /短暂 (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · hu mulandóság (impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying) · de Vergänglichkeit (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · bg преходност (impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying) · hu átmenetiség (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · bg мимолетност (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting) · ja 短命 (impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying) · de Vergänglichkeit (impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying)