transience
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- nontransience noun
- nontransiency noun
Etymology
Origin of transience
First recorded in 1735–45; transi(ent) + -ence
Example Sentences
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The chair indicates “throne,” the austere clock adds a symbolic note of sober timeliness, as well as intimating life’s inevitable transience.
From Los Angeles Times
The instrumental music is often skeletal, with an ensemble consisting almost entirely of plucked instruments, their quick decays a reminder of transience.
From New York Times
In the light of this transience, he states the best course is to “do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life.”
From National Geographic
"This transience for individual sets of microchimeric cells is remarkable, especially considering their protective benefits on pregnancy outcomes, and they represent only one in a million cells," Way says.
From Science Daily
“He’s looking at the world holistically. I feel like his practice is a way of creating a universal story of migration, immigration, transience, what is home and where is home.”
From Los Angeles Times
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