transientness
nounEtymology From transient + -ness.
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The state of being transient.
- Its anaesthetic effects are characterized by the rapidity with which they are induced, and by their transientness.1866, Frederic John Farre, Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 81:
- Thus, scientific journalism has devised a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.1994, GO Waring, “Scientific Journalism: Proceedings Versus Peer Review”, in Journal of Refractive Surgery:
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- The didactic portion of them consists of the Proverbs, a collection of sententious maxims and wise discourses; Ecclesiastes, an eloquent wail over the transientness of earthly things; and the book of Job, a philosophical poem upon Providence2012, Charles M. Hoole, The Didache, Annotated edition: