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transience vs fleetingness

fleetingness vs transience

transience and fleetingness both are nouns.

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

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