Thesaurus:transience

THESAURUS

transience

English

Noun

Sense: the quality of being temporary, brief or fleeting

Synonyms

• brevity
• briefness
• caducity
• ephemerality
• ephemeralness
• fleetingness
• fugacity
• impermanence
• temporariness
• transience
• transiency
• transientness
• transitoriness

Antonyms

• durability
• endlessness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• inveteracy
• permanence    [⇒ thesaurus]
• persistence

Hyponyms

• evanescence

Hypernyms

• finity    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:ephemeral
• Thesaurus:moment
• Thesaurus:temporarily

Further reading

• “111. transientness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “transience” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.