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Fleetingness vs Transience - What's the difference?

fleetingness | transience |

As nouns the difference between fleetingness and transience

is that fleetingness is the quality of being fleeting while transience is the quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.

fleetingness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being fleeting
  • * 1709 , , ยง156
  • But the perpetual mutability and fleetingness of those immediate objects of sight render them incapable of being managed after the manner of geometrical figures...

    transience

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
  • An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
  • Synonyms

    * transiency * impermanence

    Antonyms

    * permanence

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