different between peripatetic vs transient

English

Alternative forms

• peripatetick (obsolete)
• Peripatetic (Aristotelian)

Etymology

From French péripatétique, from Latin peripat?ticus, from Ancient Greek ????????????? (peripat?tikós, “given to walking around”), from ????????? (peripaté?, “I walk around”), from ???? (perí, “around”) (English peri-)+ ????? (paté?, “I walk”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?p??.?.p??t?t.?k/, /?p??.?.p??t?t.?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

peripatetic (comparative more peripatetic, superlative most peripatetic)

1. Tending to walk about.
2. Constantly travelling; itinerant; nomadic.
3. (philosophy, usually capitalized) Having to do with Aristotle, his philosophy, or the school of thought which he founded -- from the practice of conducting philosophical conversations while taking a walk.
   • 1642, James Howell, Instructions For Foreign Travel

     The true peripatetic school.

Translations

Noun

peripatetic (plural peripatetics)

1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.

   Synonyms: wayfarer, itinerant, pedestrian, nomad

2. (philosophy, usually capitalized) One who accepts the philosophy of Aristotle or his school; an Aristotelian.
   • 1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, 11:

     He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one.

Translations

Anagrams

• precipitate

Romanian

Etymology

From French péripatétique

Adjective

peripatetic m or n (feminine singular peripatetic?, masculine plural peripatetici, feminine and neuter plural peripatetice)

1. peripatetic

Declension

English

Etymology

From stem of Latin transiens, present participle of transire (“to go over, to pass”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æn.zi.?nt/

Adjective

transient (comparative more transient, superlative most transient)

1. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

   a transient pleasure
2. Remaining for only a brief time.

   a transient view of a landscape

   a transient disease

3. (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
4. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
5. Occasional; isolated; one-off
6. Passing through; passing from one person to another.
7. (music) Intermediate.
8. (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

Synonyms

• (passing): passing, transitory, temporary
• (brief): brief, ephemeral, fleeting, flighty, fugacious

Antonyms

• (passing): permanent
• (brief): permanent, inveterate
• (mathematics): recurrent
• (philosophy): immanent

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

transient (plural transients)

1. Something that is transient.
2. (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
3. (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
4. A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3

     Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.

5. A homeless person.

Synonyms

• (traveller): itinerant, migrant, traveller
• (homeless person): homeless

Translations

Anagrams

• instanter, intranets