transient

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1. transient - Noun

2. transient - Adjective

3. transient - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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.

That which remains but for a brief time.

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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. Robert G. Ingersoll

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. Maimonides

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. Guru Nanak Dev

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. George Bernard Shaw

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pleasures are transient - honors immortal. Greek Proverb

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