[syn: brevity, briefness, transience]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Transience \Tran"sience\, Transiency \Tran"sien*cy\, n.
The quality of being transient; transientness.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
transience
n 1: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending
or dying [syn: transience, transiency,
transitoriness]
2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity,
briefness, transience]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "transience":
adaptability, adjustability, alterability, brevity, briefness,
changeability, changeableness, changefulness, compactness,
compendiousness, conciseness, curtness, death rate, death toll,
flexibility, fluidity, impermanence, instantaneousness, littleness,
lowness, malleability, mobility, modifiability, mortality,
mortalness, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, permutability,
plasticity, resilience, rubberiness, short time, shortness,
succinctness, summariness, suppleness, transitoriness