transientness
transientness noun: the state of being transient.
Noun
transientness (uncountable)
- The 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 81
- 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a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.1994, GO Waring, “Scientific Journalism: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 Surgery
- Synonyms:
- transience, ephemerality, brevity, briefness, caducity, ephemeralness, fleetingness, fugacity, impermanence, temporariness
Synonyms of transientness
- transience
- ephemerality
- brevity
- briefness
- caducity
- ephemeralness
- fleetingness
- fugacity
- impermanence
- temporariness
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Origin of transientness
From transient + -ness.
Questions about transientness
- What does transientness mean?
- Transientness means the state of being transient.
- What part of speech is transientness?
- Transientness is a noun.
Words near transientness in the dictionary
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