[f. next + -NESS.] The quality or state of being temporary.
1695. J. Sage, Article, etc. Wks. 1844 I. 197. The perpetuity or temporariness of it doth not affect its nature.
1821. Bentham, Lett. to Toreno, iii. in Wks. (1843), VIII. 510. Having but one good thing belonging to it [a law], which was its temporariness.
a. 1864. Hawthorne, S. Felton (1871), 206. That wild, sweet charm of uncertainty and temporariness.
1876. W. Bathgate, Deep Things of God, ii. 36. The … suddenness and temporariness of the physical process of breathing.
