Transience vs Transient - What's the difference?
transience | transient |
The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
* Milton
Remaining for only a brief time.
(physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
Occasional; isolated; one-off; individual.
Passing through; passing from one person to another.
(philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
Something which is transient.
(physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
(acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker
* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
An unhoused person
Transient is a derived term of transience.
Transient is a related term of transience.
As nouns the difference between transience and transient
is that transience is the quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting while transient is something which is transient.As an adjective transient is
passing or disappearing with time; transitory.transience
English
Noun
Synonyms
* transiency * impermanenceAntonyms
* permanenceAnagrams
*transient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a transient pleasure
- this transient world
- a transient view of a landscape
Synonyms
* (passing) passing, transitory, temporary * (brief) brief, ephemeral, fleeting, flighty, fugaciousAntonyms
* (passing) permanent * (brief) permanent * (mathematics) recurrent * (philosophy) immanentDerived terms
* transience * transiently * transientnessNoun
(en noun)- Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.