Impermanence vs Transient - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between impermanence and transient

is that impermanence is want of permanence or continued duration while transient is something which is transient.

passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

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Want of permanence or continued duration.

The quality or state of being impermanent.

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(en adjective)

Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

a transient pleasure

* Milton

this transient world

Remaining for only a brief time.

a transient view of a landscape

(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.

* (passing) passing, transitory, temporary * (brief) brief, ephemeral, fleeting, flighty, fugacious

* (passing) permanent * (brief) permanent * (mathematics) recurrent * (philosophy) immanent

* transience * transiently * transientness

(en noun)

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

Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.

An unhoused person

* (4) traveller: itinerant, migrant, traveller * (5) homeless: homeless

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