transientness

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English

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Etymology

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From transient +‎ -ness.

Noun

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transientness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being transient.
    • 1866, Frederic John Farre, Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 81:
      Its anaesthetic effects are characterized by the rapidity with which they are induced, and by their transientness.
    • 1994, GO Waring, “Scientific Journalism: Proceedings Versus Peer Review”, in Journal of Refractive Surgery[1]:
      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a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.
    • 2012, Charles M. Hoole, The Didache[2], Annotated edition:
      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

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