单词 | transience |
释义 | transiencen. 1. Philosophy and Theology. Frequently in form transeunce. The action or fact of producing an effect external to (the mind of) the agent; the property whereby a thing affects something other than itself. Opposed to immanence. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [noun] > operating beyond itself transiency1655 transience1657 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > being independent of universe transience1657 transcendentia1674 transcendence1848 transcendency1886 1657 T. Pierce Divine Philanthropie iv. 64 That transience of the will into the object is not separable from efficiency. 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova I. ii. xix. 64 Distinction here, as it is relative to a being in its transcience, is, whereby we know it not to be nothing. 1906 S. S. Laurie Synthetica I. i. i. 6 The difficulties that arise in connection with the transeunce. 1914 C. D. Broad Perception, Physics & Reality ii. 105 Leibniz and Lotze would have overlooked the immanence in the whole system,..and fastened on the transeunce within it with respect to its various elements. 2013 D. S. Oderberg in E. Feser Aristotle on Method & Metaphysics xi. 218 They are two essentially different kinds of causation: transience and immanence are mutually exclusive. 2. The quality or state of being transient, impermanent, or ephemeral; = transiency n. 1. 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 1739 H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa iv. v. 55 First, perish Crowns, Dominion, all the Shine And Transience of this World. a1783 H. Brooke Poet. Wks. (1792) III. 99 Here, from time and transience won, Beauty has her charms resign'd. a1822 P. B. Shelley Ess. & Lett. (1852) I. 184 A being..whose ‘thoughts wander through eternity’, disclaiming alliance with transience and decay. 1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 8 Shadows..glide away, in transience fleet. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 126 Regarding the transience of pleasure as a proof of its unreality. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 12/3 Any other explanation of the transience of French Protestantism. 1966 Daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa) 10 Jan. 4/3 Just how much change, how much transience can a human take. 2012 H. Shirane Japan & Culture of Four Seasons v. 133 Japanese poetry displays extreme sensitivity to the transience of nature and the passing of the seasons. 3. The action of passing from one state, place, etc., to another; transition, transference. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [noun] wendingeOE changing?c1225 stirringa1240 wrixlinga1240 changec1325 variancec1340 transmutationc1380 varyingc1380 whileness1382 translationc1384 alterationa1398 mutationa1398 removinga1425 revolutiona1425 shiftingc1440 changementc1450 muance1480 commutation1509 altry1527 transition1545 turning1548 novation1549 immutation?c1550 alterance1559 alienation1562 turn?1567 vicissitude1603 refraction1614 fermentationa1661 diabasis1672 parallax1677 motion1678 aliation1775 transience1946 1946 Jrnl. Philos. 43 666 A situation is static if it suffers no displacement, no quiver, and no transience from one phase to another. 1983 Oral Hist. 11 74 Tommy Morgan, largely left to fend for himself in a household noted most for its transcience from one South London lodging to another and the drunken irresponsibility of his parents. 2004 G. Dening Beach Crossings v. 230 Rituals of transience from one state to another—getting married, being buried, being convicted, being hospitalised. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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