transitoriness
Quality of passing
Transitoriness is the quality of being temporary or short-lived.
The word emphasizes impermanence—the fact that something will pass or fade: the transitoriness of youth, the transitoriness of fame.
It appears most often in philosophical or reflective contexts, contemplating how nothing lasts: He was struck by the transitoriness of human achievement.
Quality of not lasting
- evanescenceGradual disappearance from existence
- fleetingnessQuality of passing quickly
- temporarinessQuality of limited duration
- brevityShortness of expression
perishability · mutability · precariousness · mortality · finitude · instability · fragility · inconstancy
Short in duration
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- short-livedLasting only briefly
- fleetingPassing very quickly
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
temporary · quick · instantaneous · fugacious · evanescent · meteoric · flash · cursory
Quality of not lasting
- vanitasPainting of mortality symbols
- wabi-sabiAesthetic valuing transience, incompleteness
- mortalityState of eventual death
- mayaPhenomenal world's deceptive nature
samsara · ashes · entropy · flux · becoming · illusion · emptiness · groundlessness
Moving by or temporary
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- vanishingCeasing to be visible
- dissipatingScattering and fading out
- dissolvingPassing into solution
disappearing · waning · ebbing · decaying · withering · perishing · expiring · evaporating
impermanence
Quality of not lasting
- evanescenceGradual disappearance from existence
- fleetingnessQuality of passing quickly
- temporarinessQuality of limited duration
brevity · perishability · mutability · precariousness · mortality · finitude · instability · fragility · inconstancy · volatility
brief
Short in duration
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- short-livedLasting only briefly
- fleetingPassing very quickly
ephemeral · temporary · quick · instantaneous · fugacious · evanescent · meteoric · flash · cursory · passing
impermanence
Quality of not lasting
- vanitasPainting of mortality symbols
- wabi-sabiAesthetic valuing transience, incompleteness
- mortalityState of eventual death
maya · samsara · ashes · entropy · flux · becoming · illusion · emptiness · groundlessness
passing
Moving by or temporary
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- vanishingCeasing to be visible
- dissipatingScattering and fading out
dissolving · disappearing · waning · ebbing · decaying · withering · perishing · expiring · evaporating · melting
transitorinesspermanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
permanency · eternity · everlastingness · perpetuity · endurance
transitorinessconstancy
Unchanging faithfulness over time
immutability · steadfastness · fixedness · stability · changelessness
transit, transition, transient, transitory, transitional, transience, transitioned, transitioning, intransitive