Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being transient.
Its anaesthetic effects are characterized by the rapidity with which they are induced, and by their transientness.
1866, Frederic John Farre, Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 812 more examples
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a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.
1994, GO Waring, “Scientific Journalism: Proceedings Versus Peer Review”, in Journal of Refractive SurgeryThe 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
2012, Charles M. Hoole, The Didache, Annotated editionSynonyms: transience, ephemerality, brevity, briefness, caducity, ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state of being transient.
Origin
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