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Type Words
Synonyms brevity, briefness
Type of length, duration
Derivation transient
Type Words
Synonyms transiency, transitoriness
Type of impermanency, impermanence
Has types ephemeralness, fugaciousness, fugacity, fleetingness, ephemerality

Examples of transience

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Tummers notes that the cheese is old and might allude to the transience of life.
From the nytimes.com
Places of employment are often destroyed too, causing unemployment and transience.
From the en.wikipedia.org
One side-effect of this is that we can come to truly know the transience of things.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
It is both seeing the world, and seeing through the transience of the world.
From the independent.co.uk
That wintry beauty, that transience and that kernel of melancholy pervade the piece.
From the guardian.co.uk
Evans'personal story of translation, transience and adaptation started early in life.
From the courier-journal.com
I was left both with a sharpened sense of life's joy and of its inevitable transience.
From the guardian.co.uk
Another issue Reid will confront is the transience of Nevada's population.
From the newsweek.com
Yuka Otani also embraces fragility and transience but with a gentler touch.
From the chron.com
More examples
  • An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
  • Brevity: the attribute of being brief or fleeting
  • (transiently) for a very short time; "these three pions may actually be joined together transiently as a compound particle during the interchange process"
  • "Transience" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke.
  • (transiently) In a transient manner; momentarily; briefly
  • Most common type of forgetfulness due to the fleeting nature of some memories.
  • The common characteristic of things which come and go or change with time.