transiency
Quality of passing
Transiency is the quality of being transient—passing quickly, not lasting.
The word emphasizes impermanence: the transiency of youth, the transiency of fame.
It's interchangeable with transience, though transience is more common in contemporary usage.
Limited in duration
- impermanentNot meant to last
- evanescentTending to vanish quickly
- short-livedLasting only briefly
- passingMoving by or temporary
fleeting · ephemeral · perishable · provisional · interim · unstable · fugacious · deciduous
State of eventual death
- finitudeState of being bounded
- impermanenceQuality of not lasting
- wabi-sabiAesthetic valuing transience, incompleteness
- dustFine settled particles
ashes · sand · vapor · mist · shadow · dream · bubble · foam
temporary
Limited in duration
- impermanentNot meant to last
- evanescentTending to vanish quickly
- short-livedLasting only briefly
passing · fleeting · ephemeral · perishable · provisional · interim · unstable · fugacious · deciduous · volatile
mortality
State of eventual death
- finitudeState of being bounded
- impermanenceQuality of not lasting
- wabi-sabiAesthetic valuing transience, incompleteness
dust · ashes · sand · vapor · mist · shadow · dream · bubble · foam · smoke
change
To make different
flow · movement · migration · drift · turnover · fluctuation · ebb · cycle · rotation · wandering
flash
Brief burst of light
flicker · glimpse · blink · quick · sudden · abrupt · meteoric · swift · rapid · instantaneous
transiencypermanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
permanency · eternity · perpetuity · endurance · longevity
transiencyconstancy
Unchanging faithfulness over time
stability · fixedness · immutability · unchangingness · steadfastness
- transient populationShort-term inhabitants of area