transitivenessn.
/ˈtranzᵻtᵻvnᵻs/, /ˈtrɑːnzᵻtᵻvnᵻs/, /ˈtransᵻtᵻvnᵻs/, /ˈtrɑːnsᵻtᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈtrænzədɪvnəs/, /ˈtræn(t)sədɪvnəs/ 1. The quality or state of being transitory, impermanent, or ephemeral.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience
frailnessa1300
timelinessa1500
transitoriness1550
fleeting1616
temporality1635
wanzingness1642
transiency1647
impermanency1648
undurableness1648
transientness1653
fugacity1656
evanidness1659
fugaciousness1664
timeishness1674
timesomeness1674
volatilenessa1676
fleetingness1709
deciduousness1727
fleetness1727
momentaneousness1727
preterience1730
transience1739
evanescence1751
unpermanency1751
transitiveness1775
caducity1793
impermanence1796
ephemerality1822
passingness1839
transitionalness1880
anitya1882
diariness1891
anicca1904
ephemeralness1911
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Transitiveness, the state of being transitory.
1836 Dublin Univ. Mag. July 70/2 I cannot but bewail the transitiveness of their fame.
1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. 71 A belief in the transitiveness of worldly goods.
1890 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 26 Oct. 30/5 Read a lesson on the transitiveness of all hopes.
1959 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 10 Feb. 15/1 Lent is the beginning of a period of 40 days of penance, a reminder to man of the transitiveness of this life.
2007 J. C. Lyons Image of Trag. 168 Each moment erases the preceding, and what appears to be immediate and concrete dissolves quickly. The transitiveness of the experience stimulates me to categorize and rationalize the images of character I observe.
2. Grammar. The quality or fact of a verb being transitive (transitive adj. 1).
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1836 17th Ann. Rep. N.-Y. Inst. for Instr. Deaf & Dumb 1835 11 The proper time arrives for introducing verbs deprived of transitiveness, where the transitive power is supplied by a preposition.
1893 J. Clark Man. Linguistics vi. 161 The final i..was a mark of transitiveness.
1925 Anthropos 20 1042 There is no formal expression for passivity, transitiveness or intransitiveness.
1980 W. Winter in J. Fisiak Hist. Morphology 441 No use of accent as a marker of transitiveness was possible.
2015 Theory & Pract. Lang. Stud. 5 1842 Transitiveness refers to the action of a verb to an object.
3. Mathematics and Logic. = transitivity n. 3. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > propositional relation > transitivity or intransitivity
transitiveness1856
intransitivity1933
transitivity1942
1856 A. De Morgan in Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 9 104 The first [copular condition] is what I shall call transitiveness.
1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. xxvi. 218 Relations may be divided into four classes, according as they do or do not possess either of two attributes, transitiveness and symmetry.
1956 Ann. Math. 64 277 G1 and G2 will be equivalence relations if and only if they satisfy the formula..which expresses symmetry, reflexiveness and transitiveness.
4. Mathematics. = transitivity n. 1a. rare.
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1950 Ann. Math. 52 260 Now, due to the transitiveness of G on D, the validity of (116) at one point implies its validity at all other points.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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