transience

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transience
n. temporariness, impermanence

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Transience
Transience means passing with time or is the state of being brief and short-lived.

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transience

Noun
1. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
(synonym) transiency, transitoriness
(hypernym) impermanence, impermanency
(hyponym) fugacity, fugaciousness
2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting
(synonym) brevity, briefness
(hypernym) duration, length


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Transience
(n.)
Alt. of Transiency
  

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transience
Synonyms and related words:
adaptability, adjustability, alterability, brevity, briefness, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, curtness, death rate, death toll, flexibility, fluidity, impermanence, instantaneousness, littleness, lowness, malleability, mobility, modifiability, mortality, mortalness, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, permutability, plasticity, resilience, rubberiness, short time, shortness, succinctness, summariness, suppleness, transitoriness
  

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