Transitoriness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being transitory. uncountable

    "Nor certainly is Pindar blind to the more pathetic aspects of humanity—its transitoriness, its sorrows, its ignorance, its moral frailty[…]"

  2. 2
    an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying wordnet

Synonyms

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transiencetransiencycaducitydeathephemeralityfinitude

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"Nor certainly is Pindar blind to the more pathetic aspects of humanity—its transitoriness, its sorrows, its ignorance, its moral frailty[…]"

Etymology

From transitory + -ness.

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