transitorily

English

Etymology

From transitory +‎ -ly.

Adverb

transitorily

1. (degree, manner) In a transitory way.
   • 1762, Henry Home Kames, Elements of Criticism, published 1819, page 147:

     With regard to similes of this kind, it will readily occur to the reader that when a resembling subject is once properly introduced in a simile, the mind is transitorily amused with the new object, and is not dissatisfied with the slight interruption.

   • 1960, William Leonard Hoerber, A Scientific Foundation of Philosophy, page 76:

     All parts of the experienced world are experienced transitorily. They appear and disappear.

   • 2001, Neil McCulloch, L[eonard] Alan Winters, Xavier Cirera, Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook, page 149:

     Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households.

   • 2008, Frank Eckardt, Media and urban space: understanding, investigating and approaching mediacity, page 17:

     It is not a permanent space: it transitorily colonizes public urban space, overlapping and somehow replacing it.

Synonyms

• fleetingly, temporarily, transiently; see also Thesaurus:temporarily