transience
Quality of passing
Transience is the quality of being temporary or short-lived.
The word often carries a melancholic undertone—an awareness that things pass: the transience of youth, the transience of fame.
Buddhist philosophy emphasizes the transience of all phenomena.
The adjective is transient.
Passing very quickly
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- briefShort in duration
- instantaneousHappening without any delay
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
passing · short-lived · quick · swift · flash · instant · temporary · split-second
Gradual loss of intensity
- witheringDrying and declining
- wiltingLosing turgor and drooping
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
disintegration · entropy · decline · degradation · aging · senescence · erosion · corrosion
Year's four divisions
- tidesPeriodic sea-level changes
- bloomingProducing flowers now
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- sunsetDay yielding to darkness
phases · waxing · waning · migration · metamorphosis · molting · blossoming · mayfly
State of existing briefly
- transitorinessQuality of not lasting
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
- fleetingnessQuality of passing quickly
- brevityShortness of expression
perishability · finitude · mortality · mutability · instability · precariousness · fragility · uncertainty
A full stopping
- demiseCessation of existence
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- deathCessation of life
- expirationEnd of validity
termination · conclusion · passing · departure · farewell · goodbye · loss · ending
Act of going missing
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
- meltingSolid-to-liquid transition
- dissipatingScattering and fading out
- dissolvingPassing into solution
receding · retreating · subsiding · diminishing · dwindling · ebbing · dispersing · scattering
fleeting
Passing very quickly
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- briefShort in duration
- instantaneousHappening without any delay
ephemeral · passing · short-lived · quick · swift · flash · instant · temporary · split-second · evanescent
fading
Gradual loss of intensity
- witheringDrying and declining
- wiltingLosing turgor and drooping
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
dissolution · disintegration · entropy · decline · degradation · aging · senescence · erosion · corrosion · decomposition
seasons
Year's four divisions
sunset · phases · waxing · waning · migration · metamorphosis · molting · blossoming · mayfly · dew
temporality
State of existing briefly
- transitorinessQuality of not lasting
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
- fleetingnessQuality of passing quickly
brevity · perishability · finitude · mortality · mutability · instability · precariousness · fragility · uncertainty · volatility
cessation
A full stopping
- demiseCessation of existence
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- deathCessation of life
expiration · termination · conclusion · passing · departure · farewell · goodbye · loss · ending · closure
disappearance
Act of going missing
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
- meltingSolid-to-liquid transition
- dissipatingScattering and fading out
dissolving · receding · retreating · subsiding · diminishing · dwindling · ebbing · dispersing · scattering · thinning
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- time conceptsclock, calendar, hour, minute, second
- changeabilityvariability, mutability, fickleness, inconstancy, instability
- instabilityinstability, unsteadiness, shakiness, wobbliness, precariousness
- existential dreadexistential dread, existential angst, existential anxiety, existential crisis, dread
transiencepermanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
eternity · perpetuity · permanency · endurance · longevity
transienceconstancy
Unchanging faithfulness over time
immutability · changelessness · fixedness · unchangingness · stability
- transient populationShort-term inhabitants of area