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transient

• (a) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind transeunt,
• (s) lasting a very short time
  • the ephemeral joys of childhood
  • a passing fancy
  • youth's transient beauty
  • love is transitory but it is eternal
  • fugacious blossoms
  ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory,

Nouns

• (n) one who stays for only a short time
  • transient laborers
• (n) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

Synonyms

transeunt ephemeral fugacious passing short-lived transitory

Antonyms

immanent subjective

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