"transience" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: transiences [plural]
Etymology: 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 (Chinese), 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 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ence: 81 19 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': 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: finity Hyponyms: evanescence Related terms: transient, transiently, ephemeral, moment, temporarily

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for transience meaning in English (5.5kB)

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