Transiency - English meaning

noun

Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.

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The staff will edit manuscripts with a view to brevity and clarity

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The use of few words

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The essays were written with admirable brevity., the brevity of life

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The infirmity of old age; senility.

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My father was attacked with symptoms of caducity

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The quality or state of lasting only for a short time

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I'm attracted to the fragility and ephemerality of these delicate flowers., i learned a lesson on t…

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The condition of lasting for only a short time, then disappearing quickly and being forgotten

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Perhaps this is a lesson in the evanescence of fame., the story is a meditation on the evanescence …

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The state or fact of lasting for only a limited period of time.

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She describes the impermanence of human existence

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The state of not lasting for ever or not lasting for a long time

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The impermanence and fragility of life, she says that her paintings represent the impermanence of e…

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The state of being unstable; lack of stability.

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Political and economic instability

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The condition of being likely to change, esp. unexpectedly

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Teenagers often go through periods of emotional instability.

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The fact of a situation being likely to change, in a way that is worrying, or the changes that happen

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Political/economic instability investors should keep in mind the political and economic instability…

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Liability or tendency to change.

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The incessant mutability of species

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The ability to change or the fact of being likely to change

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He is interested in the mutability of identity, the way people can slip in and out of personas to f…

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The quality of being relatively small in height or length.

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Because of my shortness i had to crane my head to see

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The quality of being small in length, distance, or height

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Apart from her shortness she was hardly distinguishable from the others., shortness of time, the sh…

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Liability to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.

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The succession of new rulers contributed to the volatility of the situation

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The quality or state of being likely to change suddenly, especially by becoming worse

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The volatility of the political situation, worries about volatility in the economy, market/price/cu…