transientness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English transient Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English transientness From transient + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being transient.
The didactic portion of them consists of the Proverbs, a collection of sententious maxims and wise discourses; Ecclesiastes, an eloquent wail over the transientness of earthly things; and the book of Job, a philosophical poem upon Providence
2012, Charles M. Hoole, The Didache, Annotated edition:Thus, scientific journalism has devised a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.
1994, GO Waring, “Scientific Journalism: Proceedings Versus Peer Review”, in Journal of Refractive Surgery:Its anaesthetic effects are characterized by the rapidity with which they are induced, and by their transientness.
1866, Frederic John Farre, Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 81:
Synonyms
caducity · fugacity · ephemerality · transience · temporariness · impermanence · ephemerality · transitoriness · transientness · briefness · ephemeralness · fleetingness · transience · transiency · brevity