Synonyms for transience
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Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Transitoriness
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
- n. 2
An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
Related words
- Word family
- transient transiently
- Is a kind of
- finity
Forms
- Plural
- transiences → brevities, briefnesses, transiencies, impermanences…
Example sentences
- brevity Brevity will help you to be understood by others.
- impermanence Time is a constant reminder of life's impermanence.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| transience | rising | |
| brevity | steady | |
| briefness | falling | |
| transitoriness | falling | |
| transiency | falling | |
| impermanence | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- brevity3
- 8 letters
- fugacity, caducity
- 9 letters
- briefness
- 10 letters
- transiency
- 12 letters
- impermanence, ephemerality, fleetingness
- 13 letters
- transientness, temporariness
- 14 letters
- transitoriness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (brevity3 = 3 syllables).