Meaning of transientness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being transient.

uncountable

Examples

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

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a way to make information from meetings more readily available: the publication of abstracts and proceedings that are not peer-reviewed, an intermediate step between the transientness of newspaper reports and the permanence of the peer-reviewed paper.”

“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”

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