The difference between Chronic and Transient

When used as nouns, chronic means marijuana, typically of high quality, whereas transient means something which is transient.

When used as adjectives, chronic means of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time, whereas transient means passing or disappearing with time.

check bellow for the other definitions of Chronic and Transient

  1. Chronic as an adjective:

    Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.

    Examples:

    "'chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger"

  2. Chronic as an adjective (medicine):

    Prolonged or slow to heal.

    Examples:

    "'chronic cough; chronic headache; chronic illness"

  3. Chronic as an adjective:

    Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.

    Examples:

    "'Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition."

  4. Chronic as an adjective:

    Inveterate or habitual.

    Examples:

    "He's a chronic smoker."

  5. Chronic as an adjective (slang):

    Very bad, awful.

    Examples:

    "That concert was chronic."

  6. Chronic as an adjective (informal):

    Extremely serious.

    Examples:

    "They left him in a chronic condition."

  7. Chronic as an adjective (slang):

    Good, great; "wicked".

    Examples:

    "That was cool, chronic in fact."

  1. Chronic as a noun (slang):

    Marijuana, typically of high quality.

  2. Chronic as a noun (medicine):

    A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.

  3. Chronic as a noun:

    A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.

  1. Transient as an adjective:

    Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.

    Examples:

    "a transient pleasure"

  2. Transient as an adjective:

    Remaining for only a brief time.

    Examples:

    "a transient view of a landscape"

    "a transient disease"

  3. Transient as an adjective (physics):

    Decaying with time, especially exponentially.

  4. Transient as an adjective (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a [[state]]):

    having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.

  5. Transient as an adjective:

    Occasional; isolated; one-off

  6. Transient as an adjective:

    Passing through; passing from one person to another.

  7. Transient as an adjective (music):

    Intermediate.

  8. Transient as an adjective (philosophy):

    Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

  1. Transient as a noun:

    Something which is transient.

  2. Transient as a noun (physics):

    A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.

  3. Transient as a noun (acoustics):

    A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.

  4. Transient as a noun:

    A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker

  5. Transient as a noun:

    An unhoused person

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