Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being transitory.
The transitoriness perhaps makes viral content the most representative form of culture in the twenty-first century: […]
2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN1 more example
Nor certainly is Pindar blind to the more pathetic aspects of humanity—its transitoriness, its sorrows, its ignorance, its moral frailty[…]
1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 12, page 198Synonyms: ephemerality, impermanence, transiency
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being transitory.
More synonyms by meaning
nounan impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
German Vergänglichkeit
- Vergänglichkeitstate or quality of being transitory
Portuguese transitoriedade
- transitoriedadestate or quality of being transitory
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transitoriness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transitoriness
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