Transiency

  

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Transiency

Definition: Transiency

Transiency

Noun

1. An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "transiency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

"Transiency" is a common misspelling or typo for: transience.


Synonyms: Transiency

Synonyms: transience (n), transitoriness (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Transiency

"Transiency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Transiency" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Transiency

Language Translations for "transiency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përkohshmëri (temporality, transience). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

краткотрайност, мимолетност (transience). (various references)

   

German

  

Vergänglichkeiten (perishableness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παροδικότησ (impermanence, transience, transitoriness), παροδικότητα (impermanence, transience, transitoriness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

múlékonyság (caducity, evanescence, transience), rövid időtartam (transience), átmeneti jelleg (transience). (various references)

   

Italian

  

transitoriet (transience). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ansiencytray

   

Portuguese

  

transigência (compromise, transience). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

efemeritate (transience), caracter efemer (transience). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

быстротечность (transience). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prolaznost (transience), nepostojanost (instability, transience, versatility). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

transitoriedad (transience). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kortvarighet (transience). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

geçicilik (caducity, fleetness, temporariness, transience), fanilik (caducity, fleetness, transience). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

щось швидкоплинне (transience), швидкоплинність (evanescence, transience). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất nhất thời (temporariness, transience, transitoriness), tính chất nhanh vội (transience), tính chất ngắn ngủi (transience), tính chất chóng t n tính chất tạm thời tính chất thoáng qua (transience). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Transiency

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-r-s-t-y"

-1 letter: ancientry, cannister, insectary, tyrannies, tyrannise.

-2 letters: ancestry, ancients, canister, canniest, ceratins, cisterna, crannies, creatins, cyanines, cyanites, entrains, insectan, instance, instancy, narceins, scantier, tacrines, tyrannic.

-3 letters: acetins, ancient, anestri, antsier, arcsine, arsenic, canines, canners, cannery, cannier, canters, carnets, carneys, carnies, ceratin, certain, cineast, cistern, creatin, cretins, cristae, cyanine, cyanins, cyanite, cystein, cystine, encinas, entrain.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-r-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: astringency.

 

+2 letters: cybernations, tyrannicides.

 

+3 letters: constrainedly, nonhysterical.

 

+4 letters: consuetudinary, cyberneticians, noncrystalline, nonsymmetrical, tyrannicalness.

 

+5 letters: inconsiderately, insurrectionary, monocrystalline, sesquicentenary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Transiency


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 6E 73 69 65 6E 63 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    .-    -.    ...    ..    .    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#115 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 006E 0073 0069 0065 006E 0063 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54846780857571806991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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