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transience
DEFINITIONS OF:
transience
1
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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