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