transience
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transience
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From transient + -ence.
noun transiences
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The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
Similar: temporariness
- An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
Similar: impermanence, transiency, transientness, brevity, briefness, caducity, ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness, fugacity, transience, transitoriness · Opposite: chronicity, inveteracy, permanence, durability, endlessness, persistence
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noun
Similar: impermanence, transiency, transientness, brevity, briefness, caducity, ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness, fugacity, transience, transitoriness · Opposite: chronicity, inveteracy, permanence, durability, endlessness, persistence
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noun quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
| 日本語 | 一過性 ikkasei |
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| Deutsch | Vergänglichkeit |
noun impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
| 日本語 | 短命 tammei |
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| Deutsch | Vergänglichkeit |
Talk about this word "transience." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/transience. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. transience. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/transience "transience." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/transience.Cite this
@misc{transience_2026,
title = {transience},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/transience},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
