transitoriness

Examples

• All

• Something about the transitoriness of everything got to me.

  Fiction book (1990)

• I guess it's the transitoriness of everything that chokes me up.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The desolation came, it passed, it was over, its transitoriness as mysterious as its intensity.

  Academic text (1998)

• Many young people have known only the uncertainty, transitoriness, and unsanitary conditions of refugee settlements.

  Academic text (1999)

• Nobility is a constant reminder both of the objective and hierarchical character of value, but also of the transitoriness and finiteness of every merely human rank and claim.

  Academic text (2001)

• In recognizing the transitoriness of youth, she decided to travel the world while she still had the chance.

• The artist often depicted the transitoriness of life in her work, reminding viewers that nothing lasts forever.

• He contemplated the transitoriness of their relationship after realizing how quickly time seemed to pass.

Synonyms

I

impermanence

vstransitoriness

4 8.2

A state of not lasting forever and likely to change

focuses on temporary nature with a stronger sense of inevitable ending or death

T

transience

vstransitoriness

2 8.1

A short time before something changes or ends

stresses temporary nature and the sense that ending or death is inevitable

T

transiency

vstransitoriness

8.4

A short time that something exists before it ends

gives a stronger sense that ending or death is unavoidable

I

impermanency

vstransitoriness

8.2

A temporary condition that does not last forever

highlights the temporary state while adding that ending or death is likely

Antonyms

P

permanence

15 5.5

A situation where something lasts a long time without big change

How Temporary

ephemerality

1 8.9

transitoriness

1 9.2

temporariness

5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology