| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations | | Section VI. Time | | 1. Absolute Time |
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| 111. [Short Duration.] Transience. |
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| NOUN: | TRANSIENCE, transiency, ephemerality, transientness [rare] &c. adj.; evanescence, impermanence or impermanency, preterience [rare], volatility, fugacity, caducity [rare], mortality, span; nine days’ wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; temporary arrangement, interregnum, interim.
VELOCITY [See Velocity]; suddenness [See Instantaneity]; changeableness [See Changeableness].
EPHEMERON; transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient rates [all colloq., U. S.].
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| VERB: | BE TRANSIENT &c. adj.; flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fleet, sink, melt, fade, evaporate; pass away like a -cloud, -summer cloud, - shadow, - dream.
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| ADJECTIVE: | TRANSIENT, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting; flying &c. v.; fugacious, fugitive; transeunt, interim, shifting, slippery; spasmodic.
TEMPORAL, temporary; provisional, provisory; cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, ephemerous [rare], preterient [rare], caducous [rare], deciduous; perishable, mortal, precarious; impermanent.
BRIEF, quick, brisk, fleet, cometary, meteoric, volatile, extemporaneous, summary; pressed for time (haste) [See Haste]; sudden, momentary (instantaneous) [See Instantaneity].
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| ADVERB: | TEMPORARILY &c. adj.; pro tempore [L.]; for the moment, for a time; awhile, en passant [F.], in transitu [L.]; in a short time; soon (early) [See Earliness]; briefly &c. adj.; at short notice; on the point of, on the eve of; in articulo [L.]; between cup and lip.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - One’s days are numbered.
- The time is up.
- Here to-day and gone to-morrow.
- Non semper erit æstas.
- Eheu! fugaces labuntur anni.
- Sic transit gloria mundi.
- A schoolboy’s tale, the wonder of the hour!—Byron
- Dum loquimur fugerit invidia ætas.
- Fugit hora.
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