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adjective

Transient adj.

Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure. "Measured this transient world."

Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.

Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders. (Colloq. U. S.)

Synonyms: Transient, Transitory, Fleeting. Transient represents a thing as brief at the best; transitory, as liable at any moment to pass away. Fleeting goes further, and represents it as in the act of taking its flight. Life is transient; its joys are transitory; its hours are fleeting. "What is loose love? A transient gust." "If (we love) transitory things, which soon decay, Age must be loveliest at the latest day." "O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes."

noun

Transient n. That which remains but for a brief time.

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Etymology of 'Transient'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... describes, war was the normal condition and peace the abnormal, few realize now in our country, because of the aloofness of the present generation from even the memory of war. Our last great war ended in 1865; and since then only the light and transient touch of the Spanish War has been laid upon us. Even that war ended seventeen years ago and since then only the distant rumblings of battles in foreign lands have been borne across ...

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— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

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— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan

... the Madonna the homage of their unfeigned admiration. Involuntarily the little crowd stopped short at the sight of the picture. Some dormant emotions of human vanity were now awakened—played for a moment about the heart of Sister Frances—and may be forgiven. Her vanity was innocent and transient, her benevolence permanent and useful. Repressing the vain- glory of an artist, as she fixed her eyes upon the Madonna, her thoughts rose to higher objects, and she seized this happy moment to impress upon the minds of her young pupils their first religious ideas and ...

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