transitory
adjective
not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
transitoriness
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a word derived from
transitory.
Example Sentences
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Such writers suggest the radical path to happiness comes from recognising the inevitability of unhappiness that comes as a result of the human birthright, that is, randomness, mortality, transitoriness, uncertainty and injustice.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
But if there is one thing I can say about Ohio, it is that nowhere I’ve lived possesses such a sense of transitoriness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
"It catches perfectly the play's melancholy and preoccupation with time, transitoriness and loss," says our own Michael Billington, "even if it cannot efface golden memories of the one he did at Stratford in 1958."
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2011
And the transitional administration seems dead set on emphasizing its transitoriness with infighting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Burns associated their evanescence with the transitoriness of sensuous gratification:—“they flit ere you can point their place.”
From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson
