Synonyms for caducity
Most common
impermanence transience ephemerality transiency decline infirmity
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Transience
transience, impermanence, ephemerality, transiency, transientness, fugacity
2. Infirmity
Definitions
- n. 1
Dotage or senility.
- n. 2
The state of being impermanent or transitory.
Forms
- Plural
- caducities → transiences, impermanences, ephemeralities, transiencies…
Example sentences
- impermanence Time is a constant reminder of life's impermanence.
- transience I never cease to be amazed at the transience of our mortal life.
- decline I had to decline the invitation because I was ill.
- infirmity Fadil's infirmity didn't slow him down.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| caducity | steady | |
| impermanence | rising | |
| transience | rising | |
| ephemerality | rising | |
| transiency | falling | |
| decline | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- decay2
- 7 letters
- decline2
- 8 letters
- senility4, fugacity
- 9 letters
- infirmity4
- 10 letters
- transience3, transiency
- 11 letters
- decrepitude
- 12 letters
- impermanence, ephemerality
- 13 letters
- transientness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (decay2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- caducité
- Italiano
- caducità
- Español
- caducidad
- Deutsch
- Gebrechlichkeit
- Català
- caducitat