transientness

Roget category 111

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.1. Absolute time

#111. [Short duration.] Transientness

noun

transience, transientness etc. adj.^† — evanescence, impermanence, fugacity [Chem], caducity^†, mortality, span — nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly — spurt — flash in the pan — temporary arrangement, interregnum.
velocity etc. 274 — suddenness etc. 113 — changeableness etc. 149.
transient, transient boarder, transient guest [U.S.].

verb

be transient etc. adj. — flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade, evaporate — pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away like a shadow, pass away like a dream.

adjective

transient, transitory, transitive — passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral — flying etc. v. — fugacious, fugitive — shifting, slippery — spasmodic — instantaneous, momentaneous^†.
temporal, temporary — provisional, provisory — deciduous — perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure — impermanent.
brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary — pressed for time etc. (haste) 684 — sudden, momentary etc. (instantaneous) 113.

adverb

temporarily etc. adj. — pro tempore [Lat.] — for the moment, for a time — awhile, en passant [Fr.], in transitu [Lat.] — in a short time — soon etc. (early) 132 — briefly etc. adj. — at short notice — on the point of, on the eve of — in articulo — between cup and lip.

phrase

one's days are numbered — the time is up — here today and gone tomorrow — non semper erit aestas [Lat.] — eheu! fugaces labuntur anni [Lat.] — sic transit gloria mundi [Lat.] — a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour! [Byron]; dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas [Lat.] — fugit hora [Lat.] — all that is transitory is but an illusion [Goethe].

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