Transience vs Ephemerality - What's the difference?
transience | ephemerality |
The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.
(countable) Something that is ephemeral.
* 1961 , , The City in History , Harcourt, Brace & World, p. 242:
As nouns the difference between transience and ephemerality
is that transience is the quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting while ephemerality is (uncountable) the state or condition of being ephemeral; transience.transience
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* transiency * impermanenceAntonyms
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- So, too, the multiplication of bathrooms and the over-expenditure on broadly paved motor roads, and above all, the massive collective concentration on glib ephemeralities of all kinds, performed with supreme technical audacity.