transient
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
one who stays for only a short time
transient laborers
Types & categories
- traveler hypernym
Related & opposite
- passing derivation
Sense 2 adjective
of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
Related & opposite
- immanent antonym
- philosophy domain topic
Sense 3 noun
(physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
Types & categories
- oscillation hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 adjective
lasting a very short time
the ephemeral joys of childhood
Related & opposite
- brevity derivation
- transience derivation
- fugaciousness derivation
- ephemerality derivation
- transient derivation
- transient derivation
- ephemera derivation
- temporary similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | passing |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | traveler |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | immanent |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | philosophy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | passing |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | physics |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | oscillation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | brevity |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | transience |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | fugaciousness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ephemerality |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | transient |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | transient |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ephemera |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | temporary |