transientness

English

Etymology

From transient +‎ -ness.

Noun

transientness (uncountable)

1. The state of being transient.
   • 1866, Frederic John Farre, Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 81:

     Its anaesthetic effects are characterized by the rapidity with which they are induced, and by their transientness.

   • 1994, GO Waring, “Scientific Journalism: Proceedings Versus Peer Review”, in Journal of Refractive Surgery‎^[1]:

     Thus, scientific journalism has devised a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.

   • 2012, Charles M. Hoole, The Didache‎^[2], Annotated edition:

     The didactic portion of them consists of the Proverbs, a collection of sententious maxims and wise discourses; Ecclesiastes, an eloquent wail over the transientness of earthly things; and the book of Job, a philosophical poem upon Providence

Synonyms

• ephemerality, impermanence, transience; see also Thesaurus:transience