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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying;
[syn: transience, transiency, transitoriness]

2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting;
[syn: brevity, briefness, transience]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Transience \Tran"sience\, Transiency \Tran"sien*cy\, n. The quality of being transient; transientness. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

transience n 1: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying [syn: transience, transiency, transitoriness] 2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness, transience]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "transience": 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