transitionless

English

Etymology

transition +‎ -less

Adjective

transitionless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a transition.
   • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

     The intimacy between us seemed as sudden and transitionless as in a dream.

   • 2001, David Bordwell, “Aesthetics in Action: Kungfu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity”, in Esther C. M. Yau, editor, At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World‎^[1], University of Minneapolis Press, page 82:

     Significantly, Asian theater was also an important source of Eisenstein’s theory of expressive movement: the instantaneous shift from action to pose is akin to the “transitionless acting” he found in kabuki.