temporariness

noun

Definition of temporarinessnext
as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time the temporariness of the job is probably the reason why so few people are applying for it

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporariness
  1. transience
  2. impermanence
  3. transiency
  4. ephemerality
  5. evanescence
Noun
  • Although there will always be opposition to change, college sports have entered a new era defined by transience, athlete empowerment, and business acumen rather than the traditional amateur ideal.
    Mark LaSota, Ph.D., Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Taken together, the series might seem the ultimate Impressionist statement on transience (even an eight-hundred-year-old slab blushes with the hours).
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of transience
Noun
  • But there is also a Japanese tradition, much influenced by the Buddhist notion of impermanence, that delights in the fleetingness of beauty, as with the cherry blossom that swiftly loses its bloom.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Embracing impermanence has been a cornerstone of Mowry’s courage, amid such a major life transition.
    Essence, Essence, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of impermanence
Noun
  • But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 27 July 2022
  • The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
Definition of transiency
Noun
  • Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.
    Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But his understanding of the ephemerality of youth lends emotional impact to what might otherwise have been just killer party music.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of ephemerality
Noun
  • Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?
    Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of evanescence
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