passingnessn.
/ˈpɑːsɪŋnᵻs/, /ˈpasɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpæsɪŋnᵻs/ Transient quality; transitoriness.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience
frailnessa1300
timelinessa1500
transitoriness1550
fleeting1616
temporality1635
wanzingness1642
transiency1647
impermanency1648
undurableness1648
transientness1653
fugacity1656
evanidness1659
fugaciousness1664
timeishness1674
timesomeness1674
volatilenessa1676
fleetingness1709
deciduousness1727
fleetness1727
momentaneousness1727
preterience1730
transience1739
evanescence1751
unpermanency1751
transitiveness1775
caducity1793
impermanence1796
ephemerality1822
passingness1839
transitionalness1880
anitya1882
diariness1891
anicca1904
ephemeralness1911
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 44 Feelings so serene and sweet,..That they can make amends for their passingness.
1865 J. M. Neale Hymns Paradise (1866) 10 Here they live in endless being, Passingness hath passed away.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 4/2 The eternal quality of art and the passingness of all polemics.
1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Feb. g2 Friendship can permit a rarer sensation: raising affections higher than the passingness of the emotional.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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