transience

[ tran-shuhns, -zhuhns, -zee-uhns ]

/ ˈtræn ʃəns, -ʒəns, -zi əns /

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noun

transient state or quality.

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Sometimes tran·sien·cy .

Origin of transience

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

OTHER WORDS FROM transience

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

How to use transience in a sentence

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
Do you remember this application, among the countless ones of shadow to the transiency of life?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846|Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Despite its transiency, there was much permanency of character in its varied inhabitants.
The Autobiography of a Clown|Isaac Frederick Marcosson

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

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