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transience vs ephemerality

ephemerality vs transience

transience and ephemerality both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
transience Yes No No No
ephemerality Yes No No No
As nouns, ephemerality is a hyponym of transience; that is, ephemerality is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than transience:
  • transience: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
  • ephemerality: the property of lasting for a very short time
Other hyponyms of transience include fugaciousness, fugacity, ephemeralness, fleetingness.
transience (noun) ephemerality (noun)
an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying the property of lasting for a very short time
the attribute of being brief or fleeting
Difference between transience and ephemerality

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