"transience" meaning in English

See transience in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: transiences [plural]
Etymology: From transient + -ence. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|transient|ence}} transient + -ence Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} transience (countable and uncountable, plural transiences)
  1. The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (quality of being transient): temporariness Translations (quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting): преходност (prehodnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), мимолетност (mimoletnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 短暫 /短暂 (duǎnzàn) (Chinese), tijdeijkheid (Dutch), Vergänglichkeit [feminine] (German), múlékonyság (Hungarian), tünékenység (Hungarian), átmenetiség (Hungarian), 一過性 (ikkasei) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-transience-en-noun-NWDOHCgb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ence, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Chinese translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ence: 80 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Chinese translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'quality of being transient': 98 2 Disambiguation of 'quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting': 99 1
  2. An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying): преходност (prehodnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), vergankelijkheid (Dutch), Vergänglichkeit [feminine] (German), mulandóság (Hungarian), 短命 (tammei) (Japanese), przelotność [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-transience-en-noun-feF2z2Kd Disambiguation of 'impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: finity Hyponyms: evanescence Related terms: transient, transiently, ephemeral, moment, temporarily

Inflected forms

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      "word": "durability"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:transience",
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          "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
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          "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
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        },
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          "word": "tijdeijkheid"
        },
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          "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
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        },
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          "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
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        },
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          "sense": "impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying",
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        },
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "tammei",
          "sense": "impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying",
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        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
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        }
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      "word": "brevity"
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    {
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}
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    {
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      "roman": "prehodnost",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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      "roman": "duǎnzàn",
      "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
      "word": "短暫 /短暂"
    },
    {
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      "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
      "word": "tijdeijkheid"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Vergänglichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
      "word": "múlékonyság"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
      "word": "tünékenység"
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    {
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      "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
      "word": "átmenetiség"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "ikkasei",
      "sense": "quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting",
      "word": "一過性"
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      "roman": "prehodnost",
      "sense": "impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Vergänglichkeit"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying",
      "word": "mulandóság"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tammei",
      "sense": "impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying",
      "word": "短命"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "przelotność"
    }
  ],
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}

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