THESAURUS
passing
abandonment, abrupt, accidental, accompanying, act, ado, advance, advancement, afloat, afoot, aggrandizement, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, annihilation, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, bane, biological death, blackout, blocking, boost, brief, brittle, by the by, by the way, capricious, casual, cessation of life, changeable, circuit-riding, circumstantial, clinical death, concurrent resolution, constitution, corruptible, crossing the bar, current, cursory, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decampment, decease, deciduous, dematerialization, demise, departure, descending, disappearance, disappearing, dismissive, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, doing, doom, down-trending, downward, drifting, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, egress, elevation, elimination, en passant, enaction, enactment, end, end of life, ending, ennoblement, ephemeral, erasure, escape, eternal rest, evacuation, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, eventuating, exaltation, exit, exodus, expeditionary, expeditious, expiration, expiring, expiry, extinction, extinguishment, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, festinate, feverish, fickle, final summons, finger of death, fleeting, flight, flitting, flowing, fluent, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, furious, getaway, glancing, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, going off, going on, graduation, grave, gyrational, gyratory, hand of death, happening, hasty, hegira, hurried, immediate, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in hand, in
passing, in the wind, incidental, incidentally, inconstant, instant, insubstantial, itinerant, itinerary, jaws of death, joint resolution, journeying, knell, knighting, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last-minute, lawmaking, leaving, leaving life, legislation, legislature, locomotive, loss, loss of life, making an end, melting, momentary, mortal, mounting, moving, mundivagant, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, occasional, occultation, occurring, on, on foot, on the spot, on tour, ongoing, parenthetically, parting, passage,
passing away,
passing over, pay raise, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, perishable, perishing, pilgrimlike, plunging, preferment, prevailing, prevalent, progressing, progressive, promotion, prompt, quick, quietus, raise, reflowing, refluent, regressive, release, removal, resolution, rest, resultant, retirement, retreat, retrogressive, reward, rise, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, short-lived, sideward, silence, sinking, slap-bang, slapdash, sleep, slipping away, snap, soaring, somatic death, speedy, streaming, strolling, summary, summons of death, superficial, swift, taking place, temporal, temporary, touring, touristic, touristy, transient, transitional, transitive, transitory, traveling, trekking, under way, undurable, unenduring, unstable, up-trending, upgrading, upping, upward, urgent, vanishing, vanishing point, volatile, walking, walkout, wayfaring, wipe, withdrawal
ROGET THESAURUS
passing
Imperfection
N
imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately,
passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.
Greatness
N
greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound,
passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Transientness
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, 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, 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, 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!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.
Passage
N
passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage,
passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.