单词 | transitoriness |
释义 | transitorinessn. The quality or state of being transitory, impermanent, or ephemeral. ΘΚΠ 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 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. Bbiiiv The presence of the same euerlastyngnesse, & transitorinesse [L. aeternitas et tempus]. 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. D2 In respect of the transitorinesse of worldly kingdoms. 1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xvi. 94 The mean valuation of all these earthly things, for their transitorinesse, unsatisfaction, danger. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Several Tracts (1727) 685 The Vanity and Folly of this World, of the Unsteadiness and Transitoriness of all Things in it. 1756 S. Johnson Let. 15 Apr. (1992) I. 134 The uncertainty of fortune, and the transitoriness of beauty. 1790 Amer. Museum Oct. 173/1 (heading) On the transitoriness of life—and on mortality. 1852 G. C. Lewis Methods Observ. Politics I. 221 Written memorials are distinguished by permanence and solidity, as contrasted with the fugacity and transitoriness of oral tradition. 1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism i. 23 We may regard the spiritual world as endless duration opposed to transitoriness. 1951 Life 31 Dec. 42/1 From this obvious fact of the death and transitoriness of all determinate things, the Far Eastern Oriental draws a far-reaching moral implication. 2012 H. Scheub Trickster & Hero viii. 180 He is vulnerable, he could die, again emphasizing the transitoriness of life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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