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transience

DEFINITIONS OF: transience

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n the attribute of being brief or fleeting

Synonyms:
brevity, briefness
Type of:
duration, length
continuance in time

n an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

Synonyms:
transiency, transitoriness
Types:
fugaciousness, fugacity
the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)
ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness
the property of lasting for a very short time
Type of:
impermanence, impermanency
the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
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