transience

English

Etymology

transient +‎ -ence

Noun

transience (countable and uncountable, plural transiences)

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

Synonyms

• (quality of being transient): temporariness, impermanence, transiency, transientness; see also Thesaurus:transience

Antonyms

• chronicity
• inveteracy
• permanence

Related terms

• transient
• transiently

Translations

quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting

• Bulgarian: преходност (bg) f (prehodnost), мимолетност (bg) f (mimoletnost)
• Chinese: 短暫／短暂 (zh) (duǎnzàn)
• Dutch: tijdeijkheid
• German: Vergänglichkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: múlékonyság (hu), tünékenység, átmenetiség
• Japanese: 一過性 (ja) (ikkasei)

impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

• Bulgarian: преходност (bg) f (prehodnost)
• Dutch: vergankelijkheid (nl)
• German: Vergänglichkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: mulandóság (hu)
• Japanese: 短命 (ja) (tammei)
• Polish: przelotność (pl) f

References

• “transience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “transience”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• inertances, nectarines