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transitionless

transitionless adjective: lacking a transition.

Adjective

transitionless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a transition.
    • The intimacy between us seemed as sudden and transitionless as in a dream.1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
    • Significantly, Asian theater was also an important source of Eisenstein’s theory of expressive movement: the instantaneous shift from action to pose is akin to the “transitionless acting” he found in kabuki.2001, David Bordwell, “Aesthetics in Action: Kungfu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity”, in Esther C. M. Yau, editor, At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World, University of...

Origin of transitionless

From transition + -less.

Words formed from transitionless

Questions about transitionless

What does transitionless mean?
Transitionless means lacking a transition.
What part of speech is transitionless?
Transitionless is an adjective.

Words near transitionless in the dictionary

  1. transitioning
  2. transitionings
  3. transitionism
  4. transitionist
  5. transitionists
  6. transitionless
  7. transitionlessness
  8. transitions
  9. transitival
  10. transitive
  11. transitive animate

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