Definition of Transiency

1. Noun. An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.

Exact synonyms: Transience, Transitoriness
Generic synonyms: Impermanence, Impermanency
Specialized synonyms: Fugaciousness, Fugacity, Ephemerality, Ephemeralness, Fleetingness
Derivative terms: Transient, Transitory

Definition of Transiency

1. Noun. Transience. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transiency

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transiency

transhuman
transhumance
transhumances
transhumanism
transhumanist
transhumanists
transhumanize
transhumans
transhumant
transhumants
transhumeral
transhydrogenase
transience
transiences
transiencies
transiency (current term)
transient
transient acantholytic dermatosis
transient albuminuria
transient global amnesia
transient ischaemic attack
transient ischemic attack
transient luminous events
transient retinopathy
transiently
transientness
transients
transients and migrants

Literary usage of Transiency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"... culmination of powers; prose fantasies, (d) 1850-59: selections; works edited. III. De Quincey's learning ; transiency of his contribution to the ..."

2. The Meaning of God in Human Experience: A Philosophic Study of Religion by William Ernest Hocking (1912)
"... point of psychological description; and both this ineffability and the transiency are to be explained, as I shall try to show, on psychological grounds. ..."

3. Pulpit and Grave: A Volume of Funeral Sermons and Addresses, from Leading (1895)
"Rev. xxii. 1 2. — Behold, I come quickly ; and my reward is with Me, to render to each man according as his work is. 13. transiency of life. Josh, xxiii. ..."

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