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fleetingness vs transience

transience vs fleetingness

fleetingness and transience both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
fleetingness Yes No No No
transience Yes No No No
As nouns, transience is a hypernym of fleetingness; that is, transience is a word with a broader meaning than fleetingness:
  • fleetingness: the property of lasting for a very short time
  • transience: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
Other hypernyms of fleetingness include transiency, transitoriness.
fleetingness (noun) transience (noun)
the property of lasting for a very short time an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
the attribute of being brief or fleeting
Difference between fleetingness and transience

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