transience
nounEtymology From transient + -ence.
1
The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
2
An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
- Synonyms
- temporariness, impermanence, transiency, transientness, brevity, briefness, caducity, ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness, fugacity, transience, transitoriness
- Antonyms
- chronicity, inveteracy, permanence, durability, endlessness, persistence
- Related terms
- transient, transiently, ephemeral, moment, temporarily
- Hypernyms
- finity
- Hyponyms
- evanescence