temporariness

noun

Definition of temporarinessnext
as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time the temporariness of the job is probably the reason why so few people are applying for it

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temporariness
  1. transience
  2. impermanence
  3. transiency
  4. ephemerality
  5. evanescence
Noun
  • Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The trick is that transience itself takes on a thick, solid thinginess, each canvas barnacled over with paint.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of transience
Noun
  • This inherent impermanence makes tariffs totally ineffective at driving long-term corporate decision-making regarding where to locate facilities and jobs.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In each of these works, Sugimoto expresses his lifelong existential investigation of permanence and impermanence, of what is and is not real, of form and emptiness, and in doing so his works of art capturie the unimaginable and the unseen.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of impermanence
Noun
  • But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 27 July 2022
  • The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
Definition of transiency
Noun
  • Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.
    Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But his understanding of the ephemerality of youth lends emotional impact to what might otherwise have been just killer party music.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of ephemerality
Noun
  • How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?
    Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of evanescence
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