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TEMPORARINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does temporariness mean?
• TEMPORARINESS (noun)
The noun TEMPORARINESS has 1 sense:
1. the property of lasting only a short time
Familiarity information: TEMPORARINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of lasting only a short time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("temporariness" is a kind of...):
impermanence; impermanency (the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations)
Derivation:
temporary (lacking continuity or regularity)
temporary (not permanent; not lasting)
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