transientness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
transientness (uncountable)
- The state of being transient.
- 1866, Frederic John Farre, Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 81:
- Its anaesthetic effects are characterized by the rapidity with which they are induced, and by their transientness.
- 1994, GO Waring, “Scientific Journalism: Proceedings Versus Peer Review”, in Journal of Refractive Surgery[1]:
- Thus, scientific journalism has devised a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.
- 2012, Charles M. Hoole, The Didache[2], Annotated edition:
- The didactic portion of them consists of the Proverbs, a collection of sententious maxims and wise discourses; Ecclesiastes, an eloquent wail over the transientness of earthly things; and the book of Job, a philosophical poem upon Providence
Synonyms edit
- ephemerality, impermanence, transience; see also Thesaurus:transience