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The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the attribute of being brief or fleeting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brevity, briefness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: duration, length
an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: impermanence, impermanency
Narrower terms: fugacity, fugaciousness, ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
преходност
(prehodnost)
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Bulgarian:
мимолетност
(mimoletnost)
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Chinese:
短暫 /短暂
(duǎnzàn)
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Dutch:
tijdeijkheid
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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German:
Vergänglichkeit
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Hungarian:
múlékonyság
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Hungarian:
tünékenység
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Hungarian:
átmenetiség
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Japanese:
一過性
(ikkasei)
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Swedish:
flyktighet
— quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting
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Bulgarian:
преходност
(prehodnost)
— impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
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Dutch:
vergankelijkheid
— impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
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German:
Vergänglichkeit
— impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
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Hungarian:
mulandóság
— impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
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Japanese:
短命
(tammei)
— impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
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Polish:
przelotność
— impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
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Swedish:
förgängelse
— impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying