N. transience,
transientness,
evanescence,
impermanence,
fugacity,
caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder,
bubble, mayfly,
spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement,
interregnum, velocity, suddenness,
changeableness,
transient, transient boarder, transient guest
V. be transient,
flit, pass away, fly,
gallop,
vanish,
fade,
evaporate, pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away like a shadow, pass away like a dream
Adj. transient,
transitory, transitive, passing,
evanescent, fleeting,
cursory,
short-lived,
ephemeral, flying,
fugacious,
fugitive,
shifting,
slippery,
spasmodic,
instantaneous,
momentaneous, temporal, temporary,
provisional,
provisory,
deciduous, perishable,
mortal,
precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick,
brisk,
extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden,
momentary Adv. temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time,
awhile, en passant,
in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip
Phr. one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu, fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour, [Byron], dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion
N. instantaneity,
instantaneousness,
immediacy, suddenness,
abruptness, moment, instant, second, minute,
twinkling,
trice,
flash, breath,
crack,
jiffy,
coup,
burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time, epoch, time, time of day, time of night, hour, minute, very minute &c, very time, very hour, present time, right time, true time, exact correct time
Adj. instantaneous,
momentary, sudden, immediate, instant,
abrupt, discontinuous,
precipitous,
precipitant,
precipitate,
subitaneous,
hasty, quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash, rapid as electricity,
speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift, lively, blitz, rapid (velocity) 274
Adv. instantaneously, in no time, in less than no time,
presto,
subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice, in one's tracks, right away, toute a l'heure, at one jump, in the same breath, per saltum, uno saltu, at once, all at once,
plump,
slap, "at one fell swoop", at the same instant, immediately,
extempore, on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, no sooner said than done, just then, slap-dash
Phr. touch and go, no sooner said than done
