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transience

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

/ ˈtræn ʃəns, -ʒəns, -zi əns /

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noun

transient state or quality.

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seclusion

a false belief or opinion.

the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.

the state of being isolated, kept apart, or withdrawn into solitude.

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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

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Example sentences from the Web for transience

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

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