transitoriness

Questions about transitoriness

What does transitoriness mean?

transitoriness means "an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying".

How many syllables are in transitoriness?

transitoriness has 5 syllables: tran-si-to-ri-ness. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for transitoriness?

Close synonyms include transience, transiency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transitoriness a common word?

transitoriness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.