transience
nounHow to pronounce transience:
Definition of transience:
- transience (noun):
- a short duration
- the quality or state of being transient
- an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
Synonyms for transience:
brevity
briefness
ephemerality
ephemeralness
evanescence
fleetingness
fugaciousness
fugacity
fugitiveness
impermanence
impermanency
momentariness
shortness
temporariness
transiency
transitoriness
Antonyms for transience:
appearance
endurance
inveteracy
lengthiness
permanence
permanency
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- misplace
- blazer
- thorny
- distort
- disband
- unlove
- fragrance
- coaching
- rotund
- floated
- enchant
- cheerless
- beamy
- ghostly
- namaste
- Lucia
- idly
- homage
- gallop
- fugie
- aureate
- cuisine
- Yasma
- hoarder
- baying
- safely
- partied
- subserve
- scallop
- mayest
- unhitch
- postpone
- hooted
- digraph
- concept
- Becan
- wattle
- trochee
- enrich
- sketched
- groomsmen
- chaffron
- blithesome
- wrathful
- thriftless
- scalene
- queso
- evolve
- assailed
- knoweth
- … more
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