transiently
Not for long
Transiently means in a passing or temporary manner—lasting only briefly before changing or disappearing.
A feeling may transiently flicker across someone's face.
In scientific contexts, something transiently expressed or activated appears for a short period: The gene was transiently activated during early development.
In few words
- momentarilyFor a very short time
- temporarilyFor a limited time
- short-termOf limited duration
- fleetinglyFor a very short time
passing · quick · instant · short-lived · ephemeral · impermanent · evanescent · fugacious
At high velocity
instantaneously · fleetly · abruptly · expeditiously · split-second · flash · blink · heartbeat
Ceasing to be visible
- disappearingCeasing to be visible
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- dissipatingScattering and fading out
- evaporatingChanging from liquid to gas
dissolving · withering · dwindling · diminishing · subsiding · receding · waning · ebbing
briefly
In few words
- momentarilyFor a very short time
- temporarilyFor a limited time
- short-termOf limited duration
fleetingly · passing · quick · instant · short-lived · ephemeral · impermanent · evanescent · fugacious · volatile
rapidly
At high velocity
speedily · instantaneously · fleetly · abruptly · expeditiously · split-second · flash · blink · heartbeat · twinkling
vanishing
Ceasing to be visible
- disappearingCeasing to be visible
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- dissipatingScattering and fading out
evaporating · dissolving · withering · dwindling · diminishing · subsiding · receding · waning · ebbing · decaying
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
- Temporarilybriefly, temporarily, for now, meanwhile, for the time being
transientlypermanently
In an unchanging manner
eternally · forever · perpetually · everlastingly · enduringly
transientlysteadfastly
With unyielding commitment
constantly · fixedly · immutably · unchangingly · stably
- transient populationShort-term inhabitants of area