Transience

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transience \Tran"sience\, Transiency \Tran"sien*cy\, n.
     The quality of being transient; transientness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  transience
       n 1: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or
            dying [syn: {transiency}, {transitoriness}]
       2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: {brevity}, {briefness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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