transience

[ tran-shuh ns, -zhuh ns, -zee-uh ns ]

/ ˈtræn ʃəns, -ʒəns, -zi əns /

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noun

transient state or quality.

Nearby words

transhiatal, transhiatal esophagectomy, tranship, transhumance, transhumanism, transience, transient, transient acantholytic dermatosis, transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy, transient ischemic attack, transient modulation

Sometimes tran·sien·cy.

Origin of transience

First recorded in 1735–45; transi(ent) + -ence

Related forms

non·tran·sience, nounnon·tran·sien·cy, noun

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Examples from the Web for transiency

Their pleading persistence presents substantially the same prayer and supports it by the same considerations of man's transiency.
The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2|Alexander Maclaren
This characteristic brought another in its train—a lack of stability, and a proneness to transiency.
The Fabric of Civilization|Anonymous
The fury, height, and transiency of their spoutings was a thing to be seen and not recounted.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI|Robert Louis Stevenson
The same author, himself inaccessible to alteration, has appointed to all natural things the law of transiency and succession.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845|Various

But besides this transiency external to us, John finds a corresponding transiency within us.
Expositions of Holy Scripture|Alexander Maclaren